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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2021
Applicant:
Qnap Systems, Inc., New Taipei, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
QNAP Systems, Inc., New Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/17 (2019.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 16/174 (2019.01); G06F 16/18 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/1752 (2019.01); G06F 11/3452 (2013.01); G06F 16/1844 (2019.01);
Abstract
A method for deduplication applicable to a file chunked into a plurality of deduplicated chunks is provided and includes: defining a calculation range in the file according to types of the chunks in the file, where the calculation range includes a plurality of consecutive chunks in the file; generating an evaluation value according to the types of the chunks in the calculation range to determine whether to mark the chunks in the calculation range; and re-chunking and deduplicating the marked chunks in the file. A computer-readable medium and a file system corresponding to the method for deduplication are also provided.