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Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2015
Applicant:

Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

John Colgrove, Los Altos, CA (US);

John Hayes, Mountain View, CA (US);

Ethan Miller, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Joseph S. Hasbani, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Cary Sandvig, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30371 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0637 (2013.01); G06F 17/30952 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for managing fingerprint tables in deduplicating storage systems. A computer system includes a storage device and a data storage controller coupled to the storage device. The controller is configured to for each of a plurality of data objects stored in a storage device, determine, based on one or more attributes corresponding to usage of the data object, a probability of the data object being deduplicated; store within a first fingerprint table, fingerprints of data objects with the highest probability of being deduplicated; store within a second fingerprint table, fingerprints of data objects with a lower probability of being deduplicated than the data objects having fingerprints stored in the first fingerprint table; and search fingerprints of the first fingerprint table to determine whether a fingerprint for a data object associated with a write request matches a fingerprint for any of the data objects in the first fingerprint table.


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