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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:
May. 07, 2024

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2023
Applicant:

Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);

Inventors:

George Mathew, Belmont, CA (US);

Srisailendra Yallapragada, Cupertino, CA (US);

Murthy Mamidi, Queen Creek, AZ (US);

Keyur Desai, Cary, NC (US);

Dhawal Bhagwat, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:

Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/11 (2019.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 16/185 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1469 (2013.01); G06F 16/128 (2019.01); G06F 16/137 (2019.01); G06F 16/1748 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); G06F 16/185 (2019.01); G06F 2201/84 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for reconstructing a namespace in response to a loss of data are described herein. To reconstruct the namespace, metadata super segments within a set of file containers may be located in response to a determination that original namespace metadata associated with files stored within the containers is unreadable. Content handles linking the super segment to metadata for each of the files may then be reconstructed from the super segments. Both inode numbers and M-tree identifiers are also extracted from the super segments for each of the files referenced by the super segments. Then, a plurality of U-trees is assembled by aggregating and linking the inode numbers of the files referenced within the super segments based on the M-tree identifiers. Finally, the recovered namespace metadata tree data structure for all of the files within the plurality of LP containers is assembled by aggregating and linking the U-trees.


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