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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 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 computing the hash value of the name of each object being stored, concatenating the hashed values into a hint, and storing the hint in an index. The size of the hash values is determined by dividing the number of objects into the space available for storing the concatenation, and the range of the hash values may be determined by choosing a prime number smaller than the number that can be represented by the space available for storing the concatenation. Either the hint or the longest pathname containing the objects can be stored, and this may be selected based on the application.