Inventor

DAVENPORT WILLIAM C

US58 patents

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DAVENPORT WILLIAM C

EMC CORP

Managing mounting of file systems

Managing host data placed in a container file system on a data storage array having multiple storage tiers

File system version set infrastructure

Deduplicating container files

Reclaiming space from file system hosting many primary storage objects and their snapshots

Managing data inconsistencies in file systems

Managing replication of file systems

Combining transactions in a metadata transaction log

Managing truncation of files of file systems

Managing file deletions of files and versions of files in storage systems

Preserving quality of service when replicating data objects

Managing truncation of files of file systems

Proactive scavenging of file system snaps

File system over fully provisioned volume file in direct mode

Compressing container files

Efficient scavenging of data and metadata file system blocks

File system inline fine grained tiering

Managing recovery of file systems

Coalescing transactional same-block writes for virtual block maps

Throttling techniques for use with data relocation

Secure erasure of files by a filesystem

Upper deck file system shrink for directly and thinly provisioned lower deck file system in which upper deck file system is stored in a volume file within lower deck file system where both upper deck file system and lower deck file system resides in storage processor memory

File system over thinly provisioned volume file in mapped mode

File system snapshots over fully provisioned volume file in direct mode

File system snapshots over thinly provisioned volume file in mapped mode

Filesystem storing file data in larger units than used for metadata

Techniques for preserving redundant copies of metadata in a data storage system employing de-duplication

System and method for storage management using root and data slices

Dense file reservation in thinly provisioned file system

System and method for thin provisioning

EMC IP HOLDING CO LLC

Demand-driven initialization of data storage structures

Data deduplication techniques

Direct input/output path to compressed data

Atomically managing data objects and assigned attributes

Merging mapping metadata to promote reference counting efficiency

Managing reclaiming storage space in file systems

Data storage system employing space reclaim approximation

Preserving locality of storage accesses by virtual machine copies in hyper-converged infrastructure appliances

De-duplication of access control lists

Storage element cloning in presence of data storage pre-mapper

Computer data file system with consistency groups as basic file system objects

System and method for reduced lock contention and improved performance

Extent operation processing

System and method for synchronous replication write handling

Handling pattern identifiers in a data storage system

Techniques for optimizing metadata resiliency and performance

System and method for parallel flushing with bucketized data

Techniques for reducing size of log records

DAVENPORT WILLIAM C

Virtual block mapping for relocating compressed and/or encrypted file data block blocks

Virtual block mapping for relocating compressed and/or encrypted file data block blocks