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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2017
Veritas Technologies Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Xianbo Zhang, Plymouth, MN (US);
Weibao Wu, Vadnais Heights, MN (US);
Jeffrey Van Voorst, Shakopee, MN (US);
Haigang Wang, Shoreview, MN (US);
Yong Yang, Beijing, CH;
Shuangmin Zhang, Beijing, CH;
Veritas Technologies LLC, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed computer-implemented method for data placement in container-based storage systems may include (i) identifying a file stored within a container-based storage system, where the container-based storage system stores the file as data segments within containers, (ii) receiving, in response to a write operation directed to the file, a request to store within the container-based storage system a new data segment generated by the write operation, (iii) describing the file in terms of a plurality of consecutive slabs, (iv) determining that the new data segment falls within a specified slab, and (v) fulfilling the request to store the new data segment within the container-based storage system by storing the new data segment in a designated container that corresponds to the specified slab in response to determining that the new data segment falls within the specified slab. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.