Patent ID: 11907585
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. The processing system of claim 13, wherein the operational instructions, when executed by the at least one processor, further cause the processing system to:
receive, via the network, a plurality of data slice write requests, wherein the plurality of data slice write requests include a plurality of data slices;
store the plurality of data slices in a cache of the storage unit; and
flush the cache in response to a determining a cache flush requirement by generating a data object that includes the plurality of data slices, by writing the data object sequentially to the to the first one of the plurality of storage zones in response to determining the first one of the plurality of storage zones is designated as open for the writes, and by removing the plurality of data slices from the cache.