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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:
Feb. 11, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2023
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 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/061 (2013.01); G06F 3/0685 (2013.01);
Abstract
A technique for managing metadata changes in a storage system provides different aggregation policies for use with different metadata. The technique includes assigning metadata changes to respective aggregation policies and storing the assigned metadata changes in a set of data structures. The technique further includes destaging the metadata changes from the set of data structures separately for the different aggregation policies in accordance with settings specific to those aggregation policies.