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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2021
Applicant:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Narendhiran Chinnaanangur Ravimohan, Bangalore, IN;
Kavya Bathula, Bangalore, IN;
Assignee:
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01);
Abstract
A file system in a storage system can store files received from a host in clusters of memory in the storage system. An end portion of a file may not use the entire cluster. As a result, the end clusters of the stored files can contain unused space. A system and method detects the unused space in such clusters and creates a virtual cluster from the unused space.