Patent ID: 11971825
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 13:
14. The article of manufacture of claim 13, wherein the program code for managing the storage metadata structure further comprises program code for:
performing, by the storage control system, a merge operation to aggregate metadata items of each segment of a group of segments in the last level of the log-structured merge tree data structure, for insertion of the aggregated metadata items into the second metadata structure, wherein a given segment of the group of segments comprises the first metadata item;
determining whether the second metadata item is included in a segment of the group of segments; and
one of (i) inserting, by the storage control system, the first metadata item into the at least one designated segment, in response to determining that the second metadata item is not included in a segment of the group of segments, and (ii) deleting, by the storage control system, the first metadata item, in response to determining that the second metadata item, which overwrites the first metadata item, is included in a segment of the group of segments.