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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2022
Applicant:
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
DELL PRODUCTS L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 16/11 (2019.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/122 (2019.01); G06F 16/9017 (2019.01);
Abstract
File management is enabled for large numbers of files. Example file management includes setting a grouping identifier for a file. The method further includes determining a storage address of a data block of the file, the storage address indicating an extent where the data block is located and an offset. The method further includes setting, in a storage region of the extent corresponding to the grouping identifier, a flag for the data block based on the offset. In this manner, a large number of files in a distributed file system can be managed more efficiently.