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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2015
Veritas Technologies Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Suhas Dantkale, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Satyendra Thakur, San Jose, CA (US);
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of converting a data format in a storage system is provided. The method includes identifying a condition for when to make a data conversion from a write-optimized virtual disk format to a read-optimized virtual disk format; and locating, in response to the identified condition, a version of data. The method may include moving the version of data to a thin-provisioned format in-place virtual disk and detecting a set of overwrites from a remaining set of versions of the data, including blocks of data having been previously overwritten. The method may further include compacting each block within the set of overwrites to create a contiguous block such that an associated physical memory space is reclaimed, wherein the read-optimized virtual disk format of the data includes the thin-provisioned format in-place virtual disk and the contiguous block.