Alibaba Group Holding Limited
METHOD AND SYSTEM OF RESOURCE-SAVING METADATA UPDATE AND VERIFICATION IN GARBAGE COLLECTION

Abstract:

The present disclosure provides methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for optimizing data storing. An exemplary method comprises: determining, by a host, a source physical storage to be released as a part of the garbage collection process and a destination physical storage to store data transferred from the source physical storage as a part of the garbage collection process; reading a logic address log corresponding to the data from the source physical storage to a controller, wherein the logic address log comprises logic addresses corresponding to the data; determining, by the controller, whether the logic addresses are valid; transferring the valid logic addresses to the host; and updating a mapping table with destination physical addresses according to the valid logic addresses, wherein: the mapping table is stored in the host, and the destination physical addresses correspond to the destination physical storage.