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Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 28, 2018
Applicant:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development Lp, Westborough, MA (US);

Inventor:

Glenn Watkins, Northborough, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/174 (2019.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/14 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0643 (2013.01); G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 16/137 (2019.01); G06F 16/152 (2019.01); G06F 16/1744 (2019.01);
Abstract

A method for storing data in a storage system, includes opportunistically compressing a plurality of objects of a first size during a write operation, storing the compressed objects of the first size if they compress acceptably, and storing other objects of a second size uncompressed. It further includes determining during a read operation whether an object of the second size is stored as a part of a compressed object; if the object of the second size is not stored as a part of a compressed object of the first size, then reading the object of the second size from storage; if the object of the second size is stored as a part of the compressed object of the second size, then: reading the compressed object of the first size from storage; uncompressing the compressed object of the first size; and extracting the object of the second size.


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