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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2019
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Guilherme Menezes, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Fabiano Botelho, San Ramon, CA (US);
Abdullah Reza, Santa Clara, CA (US);
EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
In one example, a method includes measuring an amount of physical storage space used, or expected to be used, by a portion of a dataset S of segments, and measuring the amount of physical storage space includes receiving information that identifies an ad-hoc group of size 'n' of files F. . . Fthat makes up a subset of the dataset S, determining a number of unique segments in the dataset S, identifying a respective unique segment set U. . . Ufor each of the 'n' files in the ad-hoc group of files, performing a set union operation on the unique segment sets U. . . U, and determining a sum of sizes of the unique segment sets U. . . U, where the sum is the amount of physical storage space used or expected to be used by the ad-hoc group of size ‘n’ of files F. . . F.