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Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 09, 2015
Applicant:

Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);

Inventors:

Zuoyo Tao, Belmont, CA (US);

Nilesh Choudhury, Redwood City, CA (US);

Scott Martin, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Mingmin Chen, Belmont, CA (US);

Jia Shi, Burlingame, CA (US);

Alexander Tsukerman, Foster City, CA (US);

Kothanda Umamageswaran, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/174 (2019.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/1744 (2019.01); G06F 17/30153 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques herein are for accessing non-materialized blocks of a sparse file. A method involves a storage system receiving a storage command to access a sparse file. A combined content of a set of materialized blocks and a header that identifies one or more non-materialized blocks is assembled. The combined content does not comprise a content of the one or more non-materialized blocks. Responsive to the assembling, the combined content is transferred between the storage system and a computer system.


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