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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2018
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Carl Rene D'Halluin, Zwijnaarde, BE;
Bastiaan Stougie, Havant, BE;
Koen De Keyser, Sint-Denijs-Westrem, BE;
Thomas Demoor, Ghent, BE;
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In an example embodiment, a method comprises determining an ordered set of key entries; determining a first key entry for a first object in the ordered set of key entries; determining an object storage operation represented by a key of the first key entry; determining the object storage operation represented by the key of the first key entry to comprise a delete operation; and responsive to determining the object storage operation represented by the key of the first key entry to comprise the delete operation, skipping over subsequent key entries associated with the first object in the ordered set of key entries.