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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2025
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Siddharth Choudhary, Belmont, CA (US);
Boris Erlikhman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jingtao Xu, Fremont, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer program product, system, and computer implemented method for an approach to provide for efficient on demand block generation for sparseness aware file system. The approaches are discussed in the context of a cluster the uses a distributed storage arrangement that manages objects using entries for snapshots and clones that are managed together. Specifically, the present disclosure provides for an approach where metadata for snapshots and clones of the object (e.g., extent) can be managed using a single set of metadata that intermingles entries for any number of snapshots and clones of the object (or subsets thereof) together. This is further combined with support for variable sized allocation units and tombstones (that represent sparse data using metadata), where those tombstones corresponding to data that can be generated on demand using application or file specific context generation logic to improve storage efficiency and reduce storage requirements.
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