Patent ID: 6691209
Filing Date: 2004-02-10
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
In a mass storage system including a mass storage space for storing data items of a plurality of data types, each data item containing data of a corresponding data type and each data type being defined by the characteristics of the information represented by the data, and wherein the storage space is topologically organized as a plurality of basic units of storage space wherein each basic unit of storage space contains storage space for a predetermined number of data blocks of predetermined sizes, a method for storing the data in the storage space, comprising the steps of: categorizing each data item to be written into the storage space as a member of a data type, wherein each data type is determined according to a relationship between a size of a data item and a topology of a data storage space organization in the mass storage space, for each data type, ordering the data of the data items into one or more data block groups wherein each data block group corresponds to a basic unit of storage, and writing the data items of each data type into a corresponding data type area of the storage space.