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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Neal E. Bohling, III, San Jose, CA (US);
Roity Prieto Perez, San Jose, CA (US);
Helen M. Witter, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing database maintenance is described. Index information for data stored in a tree based file system running in a computer is received. The file system includes a set of data blocks arranged in logical layers and a set of pointers within the set of data blocks which reference respective data blocks in different logical layers. The received index information is parsed. A model of the file system is built based on the parsed index information. A graphical user interface having an index panel is presented. In the index panel, ones of a plurality of icons respectively represent ones of the set of data blocks and are arranged in layers representing the logical layers.