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Date of Patent:
Jan. 25, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 30, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Lu Lei, Shanghai, CN;

Young Yangchun Wu, Shanghai, CN;

Assignee:

EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 16/2246 (2019.01); G06F 16/2379 (2019.01); G06F 2212/1044 (2013.01);
Abstract

Storage management is enabled. An example method comprises: receiving an update request for a target object stored in a first storage block to write the updated target object into a second storage block different from the first storage block; determining a candidate object associated with the target object using a search tree, the search tree indicating a hierarchical relation among a plurality of objects, wherein a first node corresponding to the target object and a second node corresponding to the candidate object share a same index node in the search tree; determining whether the candidate object was updated during a past predetermined time period; and in response to the candidate object not being updated during the past predetermined time period, moving the candidate object from a third storage block into a fourth storage block different from the third storage block.


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