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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016

Filed:

Dec. 14, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

John J. Auvenshine, Tucson, AZ (US);

Erik Bartholomy, Longmont, CO (US);

John T. Olson, Tucson, AZ (US);

Nedzad Taljanovic, Tucson, AZ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/08 (2016.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/064 (2013.01); G06F 3/0643 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); G06F 12/0804 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1016 (2013.01); G06F 2212/60 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided is a technique for improving file load times with dynamic storage usage. A file made up of data blocks is received. A list of storage devices is retrieved. In one or more iterations, the data blocks of the file are written by: updating the list of storage devices by removing any storage devices with insufficient space to store additional data blocks; generating a performance score for each of the storage devices in the updated list of storage devices; determining a portion of the data blocks to be written to each of the storage devices based on the generated performance score for each of the storage devices; writing, in parallel, the determined portion of the data blocks to each of the storage devices; and recording placement information indicating the storage devices to which each determined portion of the data blocks was written.


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