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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2016
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);
Igor Ostrovsky, Mountain View, CA (US);
Shuyi Shao, Mountain View, CA (US);
Peter Vajgel, Mountain View, CA (US);
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for distributed file deletion or truncation, performed by a storage system, is provided. The method includes determining, by an authority owning an inode of a file, which authorities own data portions to be deleted, responsive to a request for the file deletion or truncation. The method includes recording, by the authority owning the inode, the file deletion or truncation in a first memory, and deleting, in background by the authorities that own the data portions to be deleted, the data portions in one of a first memory or a second memory. A system and computer readable media are also provided.