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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2014
Pivotal Software, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jagannathan Ramnarayanan, Portland, OR (US);
Ashvin Agrawal, Cupertino, CA (US);
Anthony M. Baker, Sherwood, OR (US);
Daniel Allen Smith, Portland, OR (US);
Hemant Bhanawat, Maharashtra, IN;
Swapnil Prakash Bawaskar, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Pivotal Software, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus for obtaining one or more metadata files, determining, by one or more computers and in accordance with a minor compaction setting, to perform a minor compaction of the one or more metadata files, creating one or more intermediate metadata files that each include at least compacted contacts of one or more of the metadata files, according to the determination to perform minor compaction of the one or more metadata files, determining, in accordance with a major compaction setting, to perform a major compaction of one or more of the intermediate metadata files, and creating one or more snapshot metadata files that each include at least compacted contents of one or more of the intermediate metadata files, according to the determination to perform the major compaction of one or more of the intermediate metadata files.