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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2021
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Nir Soffer, Raanana, IL;
Daniel Erez, Raanana, IL;
Red Hat, Inc., Raleigh, NC (US);
Abstract
An example method may include identifying, in a plurality of blocks of data, one or more unallocated blocks, wherein the plurality of blocks further comprises one or more allocated blocks, generating a plurality of checksums, wherein each checksum corresponds to one of the blocks, and the checksums comprise a plurality of first checksums and a plurality of second checksums, wherein each of the first checksums corresponds to one of the unallocated blocks and comprises a predetermined checksum of a block of zeros, and wherein each of the second checksums corresponds to one of the allocated blocks and comprises a checksum of the corresponding one of the allocated blocks, and generating a result checksum in view of the plurality of checksums.