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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2011
Applicant:
Edi Shmueli, Haifa, IL;
Inventor:
Edi Shmueli, Haifa, IL;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method, including assigning, to each tier in a storage system comprising multiple tiers, a respective range of priority scores, and calculating a compression ratio for a file stored on one of the multiple tiers. Using the compression ratio, a priority score is calculated for the file, and the file is migrated to the tier whose assigned range of priority scores includes the calculated priority score.