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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2012
Eric a Anderson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joseph a Tucek, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jain Nitin, Meerut, IN;
Eric A Anderson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joseph A Tucek, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jain Nitin, Meerut, IN;
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L. P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for inserting a file in a search tree (B-tree) implemented on a file system, includes: (a) in response to a current node being a root node or an internal node, determining a child node; (b) repeating (a) until a leaf node is detected; (c) in response to a number of leaf nodes at a level of the leaf node exceeding an upper limit of files or a number of child nodes of a current node exceeding an upper limit of sub-directories, balancing the level of the leaf node or child nodes; and (d) inserting the file at the level of the leaf node.