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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 05, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Benjamin W. Slivka, Clyde Hill, WA (US);
Forrest Foltz, Woodinville, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/120 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/120 ;
Abstract
An improved compressed file system is provided. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a memory cache is used for storing uncompressed data that is sent to or received from a compressed logical drive. When writing data to the compressed logical drive, the preferred embodiment of the present invention determines whether to use write-behind caching or write-through caching.