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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2018
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Rohit Chawla, Scotch Plains, NJ (US);
Ahsan Rashid, Edison, NJ (US);
Kumari Bijayalaxmi Nanda, Edison, NJ (US);
Alexander S. Mathews, Morganville, NJ (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
An in-line (or foreground) approach to obtaining contiguous ranges of free space in a file system of a data storage system that can select windows having blocks suitable for relocation at a time when one or more blocks within the respective windows are freed or de-allocated. By providing the in-line or foreground approach to obtaining contiguous ranges of free space in a file system, a more efficient determination of windows having blocks suitable for relocation can be achieved, thereby conserving processing resources of the data storage system.