Patent ID: 11921714
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. The article of manufacture of claim 14, further comprising program code that is executable by the one or more processors to implement a method which comprises:
persisting, by the storage control system, a state of the background process at points in time during operation of the background process;
wherein persisting the state of the background process comprises utilizing, by the storage control system, a plurality of pointers that point to locations in the leaf levels of the first and second tree data structure, wherein the plurality of pointers are configured to provide an indication, at a given point in time, of which metadata entries in the leaf levels of the first and second tree data structures have not yet been added to the leaf level of the third tree data structure; and
wherein persisting the state of the background process comprises persisting, by the storage control system, an intermediate structure of the third tree data structure.