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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2015
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sanjeev N. Trika, Portland, OR (US);
Benjamin W. Boyer, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Ravi L. Sahita, Beaverton, OR (US);
Xiaoning Li, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Faraz A. Siddiqi, Portland, OR (US);
INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Provided are a method, system, and computer readable storage medium for managing access to a storage device. A logical-to-physical mapping indicates for each logical address a physical address in the storage device having current data for the logical address and version information indicating whether there is a prior version of data for the logical address. In response to the logical-to-physical mapping indicating that there is no prior version of the data for a target logical address of a write, including information on the target physical address and the physical address indicated in the logical-to-physical mapping in checkpoint information. The version information for the target logical address is updated to indicate that there is a prior version of data. Data for the write is written to a target physical address. The logical-to-physical mapping for the target logical address is updated to indicate the target physical address.