Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Snapshot metadata management
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Application No.: US16885662Application Date: 2020-05-28
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Publication No.: US11340795B2Publication Date: 2022-05-24
- Inventor: Jeffrey Wilson , Michael Ferrari , Mark J. Halstead , Sandeep Chandrashekara
- Applicant: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Applicant Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Current Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Hopkinton
- Agency: Muirhead and Saturnelli, LLC
- Main IPC: G06F3/06
- IPC: G06F3/06 ; G06F11/14

Abstract:
A snapshot lookup table (SLT) and snapshot pointer structure(s) (SPSs) may be provided for a logical data unit (LSU), each SPS entry corresponding to an LSU data portion and a physical storage location at which data is stored for the data portion for a particular snapshot. A current lookup table (CLT) for a current time may be provided for an LSU, including an entry for each LSU data that points to a respective entry of an SPS. Each time a first write following the creation of a snapshot is made to an LSU data portion, the corresponding CLT entry may be updated to point to the SPS entry that was updated to point to an LSU track table entry. To create a snapshot, a snapshot lookup table (SLT) is created for each snapshot, and the contents of the CLT are copied to the newly created SLT.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210373781A1 SNAPSHOT METADATA MANAGEMENT Public/Granted day:2021-12-02
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