Using a storage system to optimize and maintain the metadata associated with a plurality of small files
US10949384B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 30, 2019 |
| Grant date | Mar 16, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 30, 2039 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/907
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A size associated with a first content file is determined to be less than a threshold size. In response to determining that the size associated with the first content file is less than the threshold size, a combined metadata structure is updated at least in part by combining metadata of the first content file with metadata of a second content file in the combined metadata structure. A snapshot tree is updated to reference a first portion of the combined metadata structure corresponding to the first content file and to reference a second portion of the combined metadata structure corresponding to the second content file.
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