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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
May. 06, 2013
Permabit Technology Corp., Cambridge, MA (US);
Jered J. Floyd, Somerville, MA (US);
Michael Fortson, Cambridge, MA (US);
Assar Westerlund, Somerville, MA (US);
Jonathan Coburn, Cambridge, MA (US);
Permabit Technology Corp., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, in general, a method for managing data in a data storage system comprises receiving data to be stored in the data storage system, computing values corresponding to different respective portions of the received data, generating identifiers corresponding to different respective portions of the received data, with an identifier corresponding to a particular portion of data including the computed value corresponding to the particular portion of data and metadata indicating a location where the particular portion of data is being stored in the data storage system, and storing at least some of the identifiers in an index until the index reaches a predetermined size.