Patent ID: 9632927
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: maintaining, by a processor, a first open logical erase block for user writes; maintaining, by the processor, a second open logical erase block for relocate writes, wherein the first and second open logical erase blocks are different logical erase blocks; receiving, by the processor, a first data stream having the user writes; transferring, by the processor, the first data stream to the first open logical erase block; receiving, by the processor, a second data stream having the relocate writes; and transferring, by the processor, the second data stream to the second open logical erase block; assigning a first timeout value to the first open logical erase block; assigning a second timeout value to the second open logical erase block; reassigning at least one of the first and second open logical erase blocks to a different data stream in response to at least one of the first and second timeouts of the respective first and second open logical erase blocks expiring.