Patent ID: 9213501
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a storage adapter coupled to one or more disks; a network adapter connected to a network and configured to receive small random changes to data via the network; a processor connected to the storage adapter and the network adapter, the processor configured to execute an agent; and an on-disk array of the one or more disks, the on-disk array configured to accumulate the small, random changes to data into one or more large blocks of changed data for storage on the one or more disks to realize a streaming bandwidth of the one or more disks, wherein the on-disk array is organized as a series of levels, each level defined by one or more block entries of a predetermined size, such that a size of each level is determined by a number of block entries within the level, and wherein the number of block entries for a first level and a second level are defined according to a Fibonacci sequence.