Patent ID: 11861198
Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A method implemented by a data processing system of a node, comprising:
evaluating, by the node of a distributed storage architecture, an incoming write operation to identify an indirect block of data targeted by the incoming write operation;
evaluating the indirect block to determine whether the indirect block has been modified with modifications not yet stored to distributed storage of the distributed storage architecture or has not been modified with modifications not yet stored to the distributed storage;
in response to determining that the indirect block has been modified with modifications not yet stored to distributed storage of the distributed storage architecture, refraining from caching the indirect block into a journal within which log records are created for write operations received by the node; and
in response to determining that the indirect block has not been modified with modifications not yet stored to the distributed storage, caching the indirect block into a log record created within the journal for the incoming write operation.