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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2012
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Colin L. Lazier, Seattle, WA (US);
Kestutis Patiejunas, Sammamish, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are described herein to provide efficient data retrieval in a data storage system. Specifically, in cases where users of a data storage system are not overly sensitive to data retrieval time, such as the case for backup and archival data storage systems, random read requests may be fulfilled as part of sequential reads to reduce I/O operations. A data storage system may be divided into data storage zones. Sequential reads may be performed for data stored in those data storage zones with pending data retrieval requests. Data retrieval requests may be fulfilled based at least in part on the sequentially-read data.