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Apparatus, system, and method for caching data on a solid-state storage device

  • US 8,719,501 B2
  • Filed: 09/08/2010
  • Issued: 05/06/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • maintaining, by a storage controller configured to manage a solid-state storage device, a logical address space by use of an index configured to a) map data stored on the solid-state storage device to respective storage locations of the solid-state storage device, and b) to map identifiers corresponding to data of a primary storage system cached on the solid-state storage device to respective storage locations of the solid-state storage device, wherein the logical address space is larger than a physical address space of the solid-state storage device; and

    accessing metadata pertaining to storage operations performed on the solid-state storage device and maintained by the storage controller to manage data of the primary storage system cached on the solid-state storage device.

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