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Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2024

Filed:

Apr. 18, 2020
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Ben Sasson, North Baddesley, GB;

Gordon Douglas Hutchison, Eastleigh, GB;

Lee Jason Sanders, Chichester, GB;

Gareth Paul Jones, Hampshire, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/123 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/123 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1044 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for stale data recovery using virtual storage metadata. The method includes one or more processors generating a primary virtual storage metadata structure having virtual address areas for a data chunk. Each area includes a plurality of most recent updates of metadata for the data chunk. The metadata of each update includes a sequence number for the update and a pointer to the physical location of the data. The method further includes one or more processors generating an overflow virtual storage metadata structure for multiple virtual address areas. The overflow metadata structure includes updates that have overflowed from the virtual address areas. In addition, wherein an oldest update in a full virtual address area of the primary virtual storage metadata structure includes a link to an overflow location.


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