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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Shiv S. Kumar, Pune, IN;
Kaushik Gupta, Pune, IN;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system can determine to perform deduplication on a group of directories in a file system. The system can determine respective deduplication ratios of respective directories of the group of directories, wherein the respective deduplication ratios comprise respective ratios of respective logical sizes of the respective directories to respective physical sizes of the respective directories. The system can perform the deduplication on a first subgroup of the group of directories that have respective deduplication ratios that satisfy a deduplication ratio criterion before performing deduplication on a second subgroup of the group of directories that have respective deduplication ratios that do not satisfy the deduplication ratio criterion.