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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2010
Lior Aronovich, Toronto, CA;
Amir Kredi, Tel Aviv, IL;
Amit Schreiber, Kiriat Ata, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments writing data are provided. In one embodiment, the data arranged in a plurality of write intervals is loaded into a plurality of buffers, the totality of the plurality of buffers configured as a sliding write window mechanism adapted for movement to accommodate the write intervals. The data may reach the storage system out of a sequential order, and by loading it appropriately into the said buffers the data is ordered sequentially before it is written to the storage media. When a commencing section of the sliding write window is filled up with written data, this section is flushed to the storage media, and the window slides forward, to accommodate further data written by the writers. The writers are synchronized with the interval reflected by the current position of the sliding write window, and they send data to be written only where this data fits into the current interval of the window.