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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2013
Netapp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Subramaniam Periyagaram, San Jose, CA (US);
Sandeep Yadav, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Blake Lewis, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Rickard E. Faith, Hillsborough, NC (US);
Ashish Prakash, Morrisville, NC (US);
Ram Kesavan, Los Altos, CA (US);
Ananthan Subramanian, Menlo Park, CA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
It is determined that a first data block contains the same data as a second data block. The first data block is associated with a first extent and the second data block is associated with a second extent. In response to determining that the first data block contains the same data as the second data block, the second data block is associated with the first extent and the first data block is disassociated with the second extent.