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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2004
Dhrubajyoti Borthakur, San Jose, CA (US);
Serge Pashenkov, Redwood City, CA (US);
Dhrubajyoti Borthakur, San Jose, CA (US);
Serge Pashenkov, Redwood City, CA (US);
Symantec Operating Corporation, Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for chunk-based indexing of file system content. In one embodiment, the system may include a storage device configured to store data and a file system configured to manage access to the storage device and to store file system content including a plurality of files. The system may further include a search engine configured to construct an index of the file system content. The file system may be further configured to partition a given one of the plurality of files into a plurality of logical chunks, and constructing an index may include generating respective index information associated with each of the plurality of logical chunks.