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

Claim 18:
19. A non-transitory machine readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed by a machine, causes the machine to perform operations comprising:
evaluating, by a 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 vet 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 vet stored to the distributed storage, caching the indirect block into a log record created within the journal for the incoming write operation.