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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2017
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Frederik Jacqueline Luc De Schrijver, Wenduine, BE;
Joris Custers, Ghent, BE;
Carl Rene D'Halluin, Zwijnaarde, BE;
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A system, method and apparatus for storing metadata in a metadata store in a robust and efficient manner including receiving a request from a client to perform a data transaction, updating a key-value pair in a metadata store based on the request, entering the data transaction in a transaction log, replicating the last transaction log entry in at least one other storage node in the metadata store and, in response to a threshold event, migrating a first portion of the transaction log from the a data storage medium to a second data storage medium of each of the plurality of data storage nodes.