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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 28, 2017
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Evgeny Popovich, Vancouver, CA;

Max Laier, Seattle, WA (US);

Edward Cande, Bedford, NH (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/178 (2019.01); G06F 12/0893 (2016.01); G06F 12/0804 (2016.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/178 (2019.01); G06F 12/0804 (2013.01); G06F 12/0893 (2013.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/164 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 2212/1024 (2013.01); G06F 2212/163 (2013.01); G06F 2212/608 (2013.01);
Abstract

Implementations are provided herein for having at least two data streams associated with each file in a file system. The first, a cache overlay layer, can store additional state information on a per block basis that details whether each individual block of file data within the cache overlay layer is clean, dirty, or indicates that a write back to the storage layer is in progress. The second, a storage layer, can be a use case defined repository that can transform data using data augmentation methods as a part of tiering data to external repositories. File system operations directed to the cache overlay layer can be processed asynchronously from file system operations directed to the storage layer.


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