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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2002
Moshe Yanai, Brookline, MA (US);
Natan Vishlitzky, Brookline, MA (US);
Bruno Alterescu, Newton, MA (US);
Daniel Castel, Framingham, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A data storage system includes data storage and a record locator data structure in random access memory. The record locator data structure includes entries having different lengths. For locating variable-length data records in the data storage, for example, at least some but not all of the entries have a data-length portion indicating data length of a respective data record of the entry when the data length of the respective data record fails to match an expected data length. Each entry, for example, has a fixed length portion including an indication of whether or not the entry has a data-length portion, the fixed length portions are stored sequentially in a first region of address locations of the random access memory, and the data-length portions are stored sequentially in a second region of address locations of the random access memory.