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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2012
Applicants:
Ruston Panabaker, Bellevue, WA (US);
Cenk Ergan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Michael R. Fortin, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Ruston Panabaker, Bellevue, WA (US);
Cenk Ergan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Michael R. Fortin, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a method of synchronizing with a separated disk cache, the separated cache is configured to transfer cache data to a staging area of a storage device. An atomic commit operation is utilized to instruct the storage device to atomically commit the cache data to a mapping scheme of the storage device.