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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2021
Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, IL;
Asaf Weissman, Tel Aviv, IL;
Or Dahan, Tel Aviv, IL;
VAST DATA LTD., Tel Aviv, IL;
Abstract
A method for traversal of a filesystem tree, the method may include traversing the filesystem tree by multiple processing entities of a set of processing entities that belong to a storage system; wherein the traversing comprises multiple iterations of on-the fly allocation of workload, associated with parallel traversing of the filesystem tree, among the multiple processing entities; wherein a current iteration of the on the fly allocation is (a) executed by a current group of processing entities that are currently assigned to traverse current nodes of the filesystem tree, and (b) comprises re-allocating by the current group, a traversal task for traversing one or more child nodes of each of the current nodes of the filesystem tree, to a next group of processing entities; wherein the current group and the next group belong to the set.