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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2024
Applicant:
Pure Storage, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Zoltan Dewitt, Daly City, CA (US);
Benjamin Scholbrock, San Jose, CA (US);
Andrew Bernat, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ronald Karr, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Robert Lee, Pebble Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
PURE STORAGE, INC., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01); G11C 16/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11C 16/16 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 11/1076 (2013.01); G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 12/0253 (2013.01); G06F 16/1752 (2019.01);
Abstract
Allocation units having equal allocation unit sizes are formed for writing into erase blocks of a storage system. One or more of the allocation units are formed of at least a portion of two erase blocks. Data is written to the erase blocks forming the allocation units such that one of the erase blocks is open at a time during the writing of the data.