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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2013
Permabit Technology Corporation, 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 Corporation, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
In one aspect, in general, a method for managing data includes receiving, at a data deduplication engine of a computer system, data to be stored in a data storage system, computing a first value corresponding to at least one portion of the received data, determining that the first value matches a second value stored in a collection of identifiers, each identifier corresponding to a particular portion of data stored in the data storage system, each identifier comprising a computed value corresponding to the particular portion of data and including metadata indicating a location where the particular portion of data is being stored in the data storage system, and based on the determination that the first value matches a second value stored in the collection of identifiers, reallocating one or more physical locations from corresponding one or more virtual locations to different respective one or more virtual locations.