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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Reut Cohen, Tel Aviv, IL;
Jonathan Fischer-Toubol, Tel Aviv, IL;
Afief Halumi, Tel Aviv, IL;
Danny Harnik, Tel Aviv, IL;
Ety Khaitzin, Petah Tikva, IL;
Sergey Marenkov, Tel Aviv, IL;
Asaf Porat-Stoler, Tel Aviv, IL;
Yosef Shatsky, Tel Aviv, IL;
Tom Sivan, Tel Aviv, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A mechanism is provided for dispersed location-based data storage. A request is received to write a data file to a referrer memory region in a set of memory regions. For each data chunk of the data file, responsive to a comparison of a hash value for the data chunk to other hash values for other stored data chunks referenced in the referrer memory region indicating that the data chunk fails to exist in the referrer memory region, responsive to the data chunk existing in another memory region in the set of memory regions, responsive to the memory region failing to be one of the predetermined number N of owner memory regions associated with the referrer memory region, and responsive to the predetermined number N of owner memory regions failing to have been met, a reference to the data chunk is stored in the referrer memory region.