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Distributed file system that provides scalability and resiliency

US12045207B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 1, 2021
Grant dateJul 23, 2024
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Expiry dateOct 19, 2041

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F11/0751
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A distributed storage management system comprising nodes that form a cluster, a distributed block layer that spans the nodes in the cluster, and file system instances deployed on the nodes. Each file system instance comprises a data management subsystem and a storage management subsystem disaggregated from the data management subsystem. The storage management subsystem comprises a node block store that forms a portion of the distributed block layer and a storage manager that manages a key-value store and virtualized storage supporting the node block store. A file system volume hosted by the data management subsystem maps to a logical block device hosted by the virtualized storage in the storage management subsystem. The key-value store includes, for a data block of the logical block device, a key that comprises a block identifier for the logical block device and a value that comprises the data block.

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