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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2014
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Anand Avati, Mountain View, CA (US);
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for compacting change logs using file content location identifiers. An example method may comprise: identifying a first change log record comprising an identifier of a first data structure referencing a first physical location of contents of a file before a first file system operation, the first change log record further comprising an identifier of a second data structure referencing a second physical location of the contents of the file after the file first system operation; identifying a second change log record comprising the identifier of the second data structure referencing the second physical location of the contents of the file before a second file system operation, the second change log record further comprising an identifier of a third data structure referencing a third physical location of the contents of the file after the second file system operation; and replacing the first change log record and the second change log record with a third change log record comprising the identifier of the first data structure and the identifier of the third data structure.