VIRTUAL ACCOUNTING CONTAINER FOR SUPPORTING SMALL VOLUMES OF DATA

摘要

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, computer program product, and system for storing small volumes of data. The method includes creating a container within a storage disk. The method includes distributing data evenly between storage disks. A partition is created within the container. Data is received and stored in the partition, wherein the partition is at least as large as the data. The method may also include setting an offset associated with the partition to allow for partition expansion.

主权项

1. A method of storing small volumes of data comprising:
in a grid scale storage system comprising a plurality of storage disks, establishing, by one or more computer processors, a set of storage slices, within a plurality of logical unit number (LUN) through the plurality of storage disks, wherein a minimum size of each LUN is 17 GB based on:
(partition size)*(the set of storage slices), and wherein the partition size is 1 MB and the set of storage slices comprises 16,411 slices; creating, by one or more computer processors, a container within a slice of the set of storage slices from the plurality of storage disks; creating, by one or more computer processors, a partition within said container, wherein said partition creates a small volume of storage; assigning, by one or more computer processors, an offset, wherein the offset is a volume between the start of a slice and the start of the container and wherein the offset indicates an origin location to store data; receiving, by one or more computer processors, a fragment of data; and storing, by one or more computer processors, said fragment of data in said partition, wherein said partition is at least as large as a size of the fragment of data.