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Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2015
Applicant:

Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Marc De Souter, Wayne, NJ (US);

Pranit Sethi, Piscataway, NJ (US);

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/17 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/1734 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01);
Abstract

Logging changes to file system metadata using a single log hold per cached block of metadata. A metadata log including log entries is maintained in persistent storage, and each log entry in the metadata log contains metadata modified by a corresponding file system request. A single log hold is stored for each block of cached metadata. The single log hold for a given block of cached metadata indicates a file system request that modifies the metadata contained in the block, and that corresponds to a log entry located the closest, of all log entries corresponding to file system requests that modify metadata contained in the block, to a head of the metadata log.


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