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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2022
Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, IL;
Avi Goren, Tel Aviv, IL;
Ido Sekely, Tel Aviv, IL;
Ilona Osipova, Tel Aviv, IL;
Shai Katz, Tel Aviv, IL;
Kfir Gez, Tel Aviv, IL;
VAST DATA LTD., Tel Aviv, IL;
Abstract
A method for monitoring largest file system entities of a file system that is stored in a storage system, the method may include populating, during multiple population iterations, a cache of the storage system with largest file system entities metadata; wherein a current population iteration of the multiple population iterations may include pushing, to a heap, metadata related to a set of one or more file system entities that are children of a parent file system entity that was deemed a largest file system entity of a last population iteration that preceded the current population iteration; popping the heap to provide a current largest file system entity; and storing metadata related to the current largest file system entity in the cache.