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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2012
Adekunle Bello, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Andrew N. Solomon, Austin, TX (US);
Robert Wright Thomson, Austin, TX (US);
Adekunle Bello, Pflugerville, TX (US);
Andrew N. Solomon, Austin, TX (US);
Robert Wright Thomson, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided are techniques for more efficient data storage on a computing system. An inode table is provided and populated with information relating to current and N previous locations within data storage that a particular data block has been stored. When a particular data block is modified in a redirect on write system, the modified data block is stored, if possible in a previous storage location for that particular data block and the current data location may be saved for use as the location for a subsequent modification.