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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 28, 2019
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Alex Pengbo Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Xiao Chen, Shanghai, CN;
EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an electronic device and a computer-readable medium for managing metadata. The method disclosed herein comprises: obtaining a check marker from a remote device; determining whether the check marker indicates that user data and metadata have been backed up in the remote device, the user data and the metadata being generated by an operation executed by a user on an object; and in response to the check marker indicating that the user data and the metadata have been backed up in the remote device, marking the metadata as removable metadata. In this way, the embodiments of the present disclosure can improve garbage collection efficiency of a storage system and execution efficiency of a metadata integration task.
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