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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2014
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Yuval Berger, Tel Aviv, IL;
Ben Sasson, Yaffo, IL;
Ori Shalev, Kiryat Ono, IL;
Yosef Shatsky, Karnei Shomron, IL;
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2013.01); G06F 12/10 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2013.01);
Abstract
For combining virtual mapping metadata and physical space mapping metadata in a storage system by a processor device in a computing environment, data and metadata are maintained into separate virtual streams. The separate virtual streams include a metadata stream for the metadata and a data stream for the data. Information of a mapping of logical data to a location on the data stream and a current state of unused spaces in the data stream is linearly distributed within the metadata stream.