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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2007
R. Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);
R. Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for different embodiments of probabilistic summary data structure based encoding for garbage collection are described. In one embodiment, a method comprises generating a probabilistic summary data structure that represents active blocks of data within a storage device based on identifications of the active blocks or the data within the active blocks. The method also includes performing garbage collection of at least a portion of the storage device based on the probabilistic summary data structure.
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