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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2021
Lightbits Labs Ltd., Kfar Saba, IL;
Shmuel Ben-Yehuda, Haifa, IL;
Ofir Efrati, Even Yehuda, IL;
Abel Alkon Gordon, Haifa, IL;
Ofer Hayut, Rosh Pina, IL;
Eran Kirzner, Moshav Elishama, IL;
Alexander Shpiner, Nesher, IL;
Roy Shterman, Kfar Saba, IL;
Maor Vanmak, Magal, IL;
LIGHTBITS LABS LTD., Kfar Saba, IL;
Abstract
In a storage system including a first tier and a second tier a method includes: storing access statistics per object; obtaining a request to perform a write operation; calculating a recency factor to the first object based on the access statistics; and writing the first object to one of the first tier and the second tier, depending on the recency factor. Performing garbage collection process on the second tier may include: reading metadata of an object stored in the second tier; determining whether the object is valid based on the metadata; if the object is invalid, discarding the object; and if the second object is valid: calculating a recency factor for the object based on the access statistics of the object; and moving the object to the first tier or leaving the object in the second tier, depending on the recency factor of the second object.