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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2024
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Lee Jason Sanders, Chichester, GB;
Roderick Guy Charles Moore, Bournemouth, GB;
Florent Christian Rostagni, Eastleigh, GB;
Paul Nicholas Cashman, Burnham-on-Sea, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, system, computer program product, and computer program for managing data in a storage system, the storage system comprising: a set of subsystems comprising: a structure comprising a set of mappings between logical and mapped addresses; and a storage device comprising a first data version at a first mapped address; the method comprising: for at least one substructure: providing, in the structure, for the first logical address, a verified pointer to the first mapped address; writing a second data version for a second mapped address, the second mapped address different from the first mapped address; providing, in the structure, for the first logical address a write-head pointer to the second mapped address; gathering the second data version to determine metadata for the second data version, the metadata associated with an indicator; in response to the indicator comprising a verify indicator; updating the verify pointer to the second mapped address.