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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
May. 29, 2015
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventor:
Guo Feng Zhu, Shanghai, CN;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/1752 (2019.01);
Abstract
The present invention discloses a method for deduplication of a file, a computer program product, and an apparatus thereof. In the method, the file is partitioned into at least one composite block, wherein the composite block includes a fixed-size block and a variable-size block, the variable-size block being determined based on content of the file. Then a deduplication operation is performed on the at least one composite block.