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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 06, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2005
Yasemin Ugur Ozekinci, Burlington, CA;
Thomas Papadakis, Burlington, CA;
Yasemin Ugur Ozekinci, Burlington, CA;
Thomas Papadakis, Burlington, CA;
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for tracking a plurality of objects being stored are disclosed. In an embodiment, this comprises determining an application associated with the objects being stored, selecting a hint or longest pathname containing the plurality of objects, and storing the selection in the index. The hint may be generated by concatenating at least a portion of a name of each object being stored into the hint, concatenating hash values of the names of the objects, or producing a bitmap of hash values of the names of the objects, depending on available space. In an embodiment, each hint generation may be tried in succession based on determining whether the previous hint fits into the space available for storing the hint.