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Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 2021

Filed:

Feb. 01, 2019
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Lachlan McIlroy, Newport, AU;

Ryan Libby, Seattle, WA (US);

Max Laier, Seattle, WA (US);

Anton Rang, Houlton, WI (US);

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0661 (2013.01); G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 16/1744 (2019.01);
Abstract

Compression of data for a file system utilizing protection groups can be implemented and managed. A compression management component (CMC) can control compression of data via inline or post-process compression for storage in protection groups in memory, including determining whether to compress data, determining a compression algorithm to utilize to compress data, and/or determining whether to perform inline and/or post-process compression of data. CMC can generate protection group (PG) metadata for a PG in which compressed data is stored. PG metadata can comprise a logical extent map that describes which logical blocks contain compressed data, a list of cyclic redundancy check values for logical blocks, and a list of compression chunks that store individual metadata regarding individual compressed streams, wherein, for an individual compressed stream, the individual metadata comprises a compression format, compressed size, uncompressed size, and/or starting offset in physical space within the PG.


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