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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Christopher J. Spiegel, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Christopher M. McAllen, Sacramento, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/202 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/202 ;
Abstract
The present invention comprises a method, apparatus, and machine-readable medium to pre-allocate a space for data. Embodiments of the present invention are designed to pre-allocate a space for data in nonvolatile memory. More specifically, embodiments may provide a reservation for a data write, so sufficient unallocated space can be confirmed as available for the write prior to actually writing the data to the nonvolatile memory.