Hitachi Data Systems Engineering UK Limited

Hitachi Vantara Corporation

Namita Lal

Neil Berrington

Gaurav Sharma

Daniel Picken

Chris Aston

Jon Smith

Joseph Smith

Zahra Badey

The present disclosure relates to management of cloned objects and corresponding snapshot objects in file systems by a file server. Aspects may relate to one or more processes for managing file system objects of a file system in a data storage system comprising a file system server, wherein the file system server comprises: a computer system including a processor configured to execute an operating system and further software components executed on the operating system, and a programmable logic device interfacing with the computer system and including a file system management unit configured to manage a file system.

Management of cloned objects in file systems

A deduplication system and method involves interaction between a software-based system that manages the overall background deduplication process and a hardware-based system that includes a hardware-based filesystem manager and a hash generator. A filesystem checkpoint mechanism is leveraged to manage the background deduplication process and also to reduce processing complexity with respect to identifying chunks that are candidates for deduplication and processing such chunks.

System and method for managing deduplication using checkpoints in a file storage system

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Namita Lal