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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 18, 2023

Filed:

Apr. 13, 2020
Applicant:

Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

Wenguang Wang, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Vamsi Gunturu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

VMware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/17 (2019.01); G06F 16/11 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 12/0873 (2016.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 16/215 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/1734 (2019.01); G06F 11/3034 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/0873 (2013.01); G06F 16/119 (2019.01); G06F 16/1727 (2019.01); G06F 16/1824 (2019.01); G06F 16/215 (2019.01); G06F 2212/7201 (2013.01);
Abstract

Solutions for supporting storage using a multi-writer log-structured file system (LFS) are disclosed that include receiving incoming data from an object of a plurality of objects that are configured to simultaneously write to the LFS from different nodes; based at least on receiving the incoming data, determining whether sufficient free segments are available in a local segment usage table (SUT) for writing the incoming data; based at least on determining that insufficient free segments are available, requesting allocation of new free segments; writing the incoming data to a log; acknowledging the writing to the object; determining whether the log has accumulated a full segment of data; based at least on determining that the log has accumulated a full segment of data, writing the full segment of data to a first segment of the free segments; and updating the local SUT to mark the first segment as no longer free.


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