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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2022
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abhinav Duggal, Fremont, CA (US);
George Mathew, Belmont, CA (US);
Philip Shilane, Newtown, PA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Metadata of a file system is maintained in a key value store. The metadata includes a namespace represented as a B+ tree having pages written to the key value store. Identifiers to the pages include a snapshot identifier and a page number. The identifiers are stored as keys in the key value store. The snapshot identifiers are used to track pages that are shared between first and second snapshots. Upon a request to write to an existing page, a determination is made from the snapshot identifiers as to whether the existing page belongs to the first or second snapshot. If the existing page belongs to the second snapshot, the write to the existing page is allowed. If the existing page belongs to the first snapshot, a copy on write (COW) is performed to generate a new page for the write.