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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 04, 2018
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Thomas Manville, Mountain View, CA (US);
Julio Lopez, Mountain View, CA (US);
Rajiv Desai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nathan Rosenblum, San Francisco, CA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Techniques to provide a de-duplicating distributed file system using a cloud-based object store are disclosed. In various embodiments, a request to store a file comprising a plurality of chunks of file data is received. A determination to store at least a subset of the plurality of chunks is made. The request is responded to at least in part by providing an indication to store two or more chunks comprising the at least a subset of the plurality of chunks comprising the file as a single stored object that includes the combined chunk data of said two or more chunks.