Patent ID: 9454323
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of storing small volumes of data within a grid-scale storage system, the method comprising: in a grid-scale storage system comprising 180 storage disks, and 16,411 slices where the 16,411 slices are distributed across the 180 storage disks, identifying, by one or more computer processors, the size of a slice of the 16,411 slices, wherein the slice size is equal to: wherein the maximum number of storage disks is 180, the size of each of the storage disks is 1 TB, and the total number of slices is 16,411; creating, by one or more computer processors, a container within a slice of the 16,411 slices distributed across the 180 storage disks, wherein creating the container comprises: creating, by one or more computer processors, said first partition within said container, wherein said first partition is identified as a logical unit number (LUN); receiving, by one or more computer processors, a fragment of data; storing, by one or more computer processors, said fragment of data in said first partition, wherein said first partition is at least as large as a size of the fragment of data; responsive to storing the fragment of data, recalculating, by one or more computer processors, an updated amount of available storage space in the 180 storage disks, wherein the updated amount of available storage space in the plurality of 180 storage disks is equal to: wherein recalculating the updated amount of available storage space comprises: wherein recalculating the updated amount of available storage space comprises maintaining, by one or more computer processors, an even distribution of a set of data across the plurality of storage disks and the first and the second partitions.