Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20110029497
Apparatus, system, and method for enhanced block-level deduplication
Filing Date: July 29, 2009Priority Date: July 29, 2009
Inventors: Michael T. Benhase, Andrew D. Walls
Assignee(s): INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Current U.S. Classification: 707, 707/698000, 707/E17005
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The computer program product of Claim 3, further comprising:directing the storage device to store a pointer to the stored data block in response to the data block matching the stored data block; andincrementing a reference count associated with a block signature corresponding to the stored data block.
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