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1. A method for managing data stored on non-volatile storage media, the method comprising: receiving a storage request at a file system, the storage request indicating that data stored on a non-volatile storage media and referenced by a logical identifier can be erased from the non-volatile ...
Ian Foster; What is the Grid? A Three Point Checklist; Jul. 22, 2002; Grid Today: vol. 1 No. 6. Tomothy H. Heil and James E. Smith, Concurrent Garbage Collection Using Hardware-Assisted Profiling, (Jan. 2001), ACM SIGPLAN Notices archive; vol. 36, Issue 1 o pp. 80-93 o ISSN:...
In some storage devices, like the solid-state storage device 102 described herein, are append and garbage collect storage devices so updating previously stored data does not overwrite existing data. Attempting to overwrite data with a string of ones or a string of zeros on such a device takes ...
1. An apparatus for managing data, the apparatus comprising: a token directive generation module that generates a storage request with a token directive, the token directive comprising a request to store on the storage device a data segment token, the token directive substituting for a series of...