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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2020
Applicant:
Emc Ip Holding Company, Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY, LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/0815 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0815 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0641 (2013.01); G06F 2212/154 (2013.01); G06F 2212/621 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving, at a node of a multi-node storage system, one or more updates to a reference count associated with a metadata block. One or more reference count deltas associated with the metadata block may be stored in a cache memory system of the node. An existing copy of the metadata block in a cache memory system of each other node of the multi-node storage system may be retained.