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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Rong Yu, West Roxbury, MA (US);
Lixin Pang, Needham, MA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
According to aspects of the disclosure, a method is provided, comprising: identifying a first front-end (FE) track that is arranged to cache data associated with one or more write requests, the first FE track being managed by a frontend of a storage system; detecting whether the first FE track is subject to a sequential write or a random write; generating a hint indicating whether the first FE track is subject to a sequential write or a random write; providing the hint from the frontend of the storage system to a destaging service of the storage system; selecting, by the destaging service of the storage system, a type of write operation for destaging the first FE track, the selected type of write operation being one of an in-place write or a relocation write; destaging the first FE track by executing the selected type of write operation.