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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2020
Filed:
May. 30, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Bryan S. Matthew, Redmond, WA (US);
Aaron W. Ogus, Redmond, WA (US);
Vadim Makhervaks, Redmond, WA (US);
Laura M. Caulfield, Redmond, WA (US);
Rajsekhar Das, Redmond, WA (US);
Scott Chao-Chueh Lee, Redmond, WA (US);
Omar Carey, Redmond, WA (US);
Madhav Pandya, Redmond, WA (US);
Ioan Oltean, Redmond, WA (US);
Garret Buban, Carnation, WA (US);
Lee Prewitt, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An append-only streams capability may be implemented that allows the host (e.g., the file system) to determine an optimal stream size based on the data to be stored in that stream. The storage device may expose to the host one or more characteristics of the available streams on the device, including but not limited to the maximum number of inactive and active streams on the device, the erase block size, the maximum number of erase blocks that can be written in parallel, and an optimal write size of the data. Using this information, the host may determine which particular stream offered by the device is best suited for the data to be stored.