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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1997
Knut Grimsrud, Aloha, OR (US);
Rick Coulson, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus is equipped with a disk block allocation optimization function for generating, if possible, an alternative disk block allocation for a current disk block allocation that will yield improved overall access time for a sequence of file accesses. The function includes logic for tracing the sequence of logical file accesses, then mapping the traced logical file accesses to physical disk blocks to determine the current disk block allocation, logic for generating the alternative disk block allocation, if possible, using the physical trace results, and logic for effectuating the alternate disk block allocation, if generated. In one particular embodiment, the logic for generating the alternative disk block allocation employs a random search approach, while in another embodiment, the logic for generating the alternative disk block allocation employs a heuristic approach.