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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2011
Mahesh Sreekandath, Kerala, IN;
Saugata Das Purkayastha, Bangalore, IN;
Mahesh Sreekandath, Kerala, IN;
Saugata Das Purkayastha, Bangalore, IN;
ST-ERICSSON SA, Plan-les-Ouates, CH;
Abstract
Methods for receiving data from a file system and storing it in a flash storage medium, wherein a bad block management process comprises queuing, at a bad block manager, one or more write requests, and receiving data associated with each of the one or more write requests and storing the received data in the bad block manager buffer; and performing cache management of data in the bad block manager buffer and subsequently returning a success status to the file system; and executing the one or more queued write requests in a separate task, wherein the executing comprises programming the received data to the flash storage medium during the bad block management process. Corresponding devices are also provided.