US 12,260,105 B1
Converting the format of a distributed object storage with reduced write operations
Ruiling Dou, Shanghai (CN); Tao Xie, Shanghai (CN); Zongliang Li, Shanghai (CN); Asit Desai, Cupertino, CA (US); Wenguang Wang, Santa Clara, CA (US); and Litao Xia, Shanghai (CN)
Assigned to VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed by VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/471,392.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0647 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a disk cluster including a group of disks, the group of disks storing data object components of a plurality of data objects; and
a disk cluster manager, wherein the disk cluster manager is configured to:
receive a format conversion instruction associated with the disk cluster;
identify a first subgroup of disks of the group of disks that are the emptiest disks of the group of disks;
evacuate all data of the first subgroup of disks to other disks in the group of disks;
reformat the first subgroup of disks based on the received format conversion instruction;
convert a group of data objects stored in the disk cluster based on the received format conversion instruction; and
write the converted group of data objects to the reformatted first subgroup of disks.