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Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2011
Applicants:

Sandeep Yadav, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Dnyaneshwar Pawar, Bangalore, IN;

Anand Natarajan, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sandeep Yadav, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Dnyaneshwar Pawar, Bangalore, IN;

Anand Natarajan, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2013.01); G06F 11/1448 (2013.01); G06F 11/1453 (2013.01);
Abstract

Method and system for partially cloning a data container with compression is provided. A storage operating system determines if a portion of a source data container that is to be cloned includes a plurality of compressed blocks that are compressed using a non-variable compression group size. The operating system clones the plurality compressed blocks with the non-variable compression group size and de-compresses a plurality of blocks of the data container that are not within the non-variable compression group size. The plurality of compressed blocks and the plurality of blocks that are not within the non-variable compression group size are then stored as a partially cloned copy of the source data container.


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