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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
May. 05, 2010
Miriam Allalouf, Mevaseret-Zion, IL;
Muli Ben-yehuda, Haifa, IL;
Julian Satran, Atlit, IL;
Itai Segall, Tel-Aviv, IL;
Miriam Allalouf, Mevaseret-Zion, IL;
Muli Ben-Yehuda, Haifa, IL;
Julian Satran, Atlit, IL;
Itai Segall, Tel-Aviv, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer implemented method is disclosed for obtaining file-level information from block level information of files stored on a storage medium. The method includes accessing the storage medium to obtain metadata available in block level on the storage medium and building an inverse block-to-file map of the files stored on the storage medium. The method also includes listening online to incoming block-level commands communicated from a host to the storage medium, parsing the incoming block-level commands, inferring file-level information from the parsed block level commands; and updating the inverse file-level map. Also disclosed are corresponding computer program product and processing system.