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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2014
Applicant:
Clearsky Data, Boston, MA (US);
Inventors:
Lazarus Vekiarides, West Roxbury, MA (US);
Daniel Suman, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Janice Ann Lacy, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Assignee:
CLEARSKY DATA, Boston, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0811 (2013.01); G06F 12/0897 (2013.01); G06F 2212/284 (2013.01); G06F 2212/62 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01);
Abstract
A coordinating node creates virtual storage from a hierarchy of local and remote cache storage resources by maintaining global logical block address (LBA) metadata maps. A size of the metadata maps at each level of the hierarchy is independent of an amount of data allocated to a respective cache store at each level.