Patent ID: 11941273
Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. An apparatus comprising:
means for determining whether a special indication is received from a host regarding a particular zone in a Zone Namespace (ZNS);
means for delaying an association of a final flash block for the particular zone in response to determining that the special indication is received from the host regarding the particular zone in the ZNS;
means for receiving host data from the host for storage in the particular zone;
means for staging the host data in a staging area in response to receiving the host data from the host;
means for receiving a zone close request regarding the particular zone from the host; and
means for performing a folding algorithm, the folding algorithm includes
means for compacting the host data for storage in the particular zone with other host data for storage in other zones into second host data, and
means for moving the second host data from the staging area to the final flash block that is associated with the particular zone and the other zones.