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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 28, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Sanjib Mallick, Bangalore, IN;
Kurumurthy Gokam, Bangalore, IN;
Mohammad Salim Akhtar, Jamshedpur, IN;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes at least one processing device configured to obtain information characterizing which of a plurality of storage nodes of a distributed storage system stores respective ones of a plurality of different logical blocks of a logical storage volume of the distributed storage system. The at least one processing device is further configured, for each of a plurality of input-output operations directed to a particular one of the logical blocks of the logical storage volume, to identify, based at least in part on the obtained information, which of the plurality of storage nodes of the distributed storage system stores the particular logical block, to select a path to the identified storage node, and to send the input-output operation to the identified storage node over the selected path.