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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2012
Applicant:
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Sitaram Pawar, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Philippe Armangau, Acton, MA (US);
Jean-Pierre Bono, Westborough, MA (US);
Christopher Seibel, Walpole, MA (US);
Assignee:
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30227 (2013.01); G06F 17/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is used in managing delete operations in files of file systems. An indirect data block of a file of a file system is deleted. A parent indirect data block pointing to the indirect data block is removed from a list. The parent indirect data block has been added to the list for flushing contents of the parent indirect data block to a storage device.