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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ashraf Haib, Rama, IL;
Ateret Anaby-Tavor, Givat Ada, IL;
Moran Gavish, Kibbutz Ein Carmel, IL;
Lior Limonad, Nesher, IL;
Sergey Zeltyn, Haifa, IL;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Data storage management by determining, for leaf and summary storage spaces of a data storage space hierarchy having at least two leaf storage spaces descending from at least one summary storage space, an invariant leaf attribute value for each leaf attribute type, an invariant summary attribute value for each descending leaf attribute type as a sum of the invariant leaf attribute values of all leaves descending from the summary storage space, and for each leaf, a variable leaf attribute value for each leaf attribute type, and, for each summary storage space, a variable summary attribute value for each descending leaf attribute type, where for each summary storage space, and for each storage space immediately descending from the summary storage space, each variable leaf attribute value of the immediately descending storage space is expressed as a proportion of the variable summary attribute value for the same attribute type.