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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2017
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Nickolay Alexandrovich Dalmatov, Saint Petersburg, RU;
Richard P. Ruef, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Kurt W. Everson, Missouri City, TX (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A technique involves, from an incoming flow of data that includes a first stream from a first source and another stream from another source, placing data of the first stream into first storage segments and data of the other stream into other storage segments that are different from the first storage segments. The technique further involves, while some of the data of the first stream becomes invalidated over time and while a garbage collection service consolidates remaining valid data of the first stream together within the first segments, tracking the number of times the remaining valid data of the first stream is consolidated together within the first segments by the garbage collection service. The technique further involves comingling (i) remaining valid data of the first stream which has been consolidated together a predefined number of times within the first segments with (ii) the data of the other stream.