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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Yi Ye, Shanghai, CN;
Kalyan C. Gunda, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system can maintain a copy-on-write b+ tree for a data storage system that is configured to store data as chunks, and a mapping between tree page identifiers of the b+ tree and first in-use chunk identifiers. The system can perform reference count validation, comprising iterating over the mapping, wherein the iterating over the mapping comprises, based on a first tree page identifier of the tree page identifiers being present in the mapping, loading second in-use chunk identifiers that correspond to the first tree page identifier directly from the mapping; and based on the first tree page identifier of the tree page identifiers being absent, loading corresponding content, extracting third in-use chunk identifiers from object metadata of the content, and updating the mapping based on the third in-use chunk identifiers, to produce an updated mapping. The system can perform garbage collection of the data storage system based on the validation.
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