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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2014
Infinidat Ltd., Herzliya, IL;
Josef Ezra, Even Yehuda, IL;
Yechiel Yochai, Moshav Aviel, IL;
Ido Ben Tsion, Ness-Ziona, IL;
Efraim Zeidner, Haifa, IL;
INFINIDAT LTD., Herzliya, IL;
Abstract
A method for a snapshot family based reading of data units from a storage system, the method comprises: receiving a read request for reading a requested data entity, searching in a cache memory of the storage system for a matching cached data entity, if not finding the matching cached data entity then: searching for one or more relevant data entity candidates stored in the storage system; selecting, out of the one or more relevant data entity candidates, a selected relevant data entity that has a content that has a highest probability, out of contents of the one or more relevant data entity candidates, to be equal to the content of the requested data entity; and responding to the read request by sending the selected relevant data entity.