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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2005
R. Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ming Benjamin Zhu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Edward K. Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);
R. Hugo Patterson, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ming Benjamin Zhu, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Edward K. Lee, Mountain View, CA (US);
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of managing duplicate segments from a segmented file storage system is disclosed. The method comprises indexing a segment according to a key for the segments wherein the index includes an identification of a first data location where the segment is stored and identifying a duplicate segment having the same key that is stored in a second location. The method further comprises determining that the duplicate segment is an undesired duplicate segment and eliminating the undesired duplicate segment.