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Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2025

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2023
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

George Mathew, Belmont, CA (US);

Charles Hickey, Aptos, CA (US);

Murthy Mamidi, Queen Creek, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 16/14 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1469 (2013.01); G06F 11/1464 (2013.01); G06F 16/156 (2019.01);
Abstract

Page keys are formed in a key-value store (KVS) storing metadata of a filesystem. Page keys identify pages of trees within which namespaces of logical partitions are held. Leaf pages include first and second full keys for each file. First full keys index inodes. Second full keys index filenames. Inode keys are formed in the KVS. Inode keys identify inodes of the files. Metadata is embedded into the page and inode keys such that each page key includes an identifier of a logical partition, an identifier of a snapshot taken of a namespace of the logical partition, and a page number to a page tree holding the namespace. Each inode key includes the logical partition identifier, the snapshot identifier, and an inode number of an inode to a file. Upon damage to the namespace, queries are conducted of the KVS and the namespace is recovered based on the query results.


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