Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20110029497
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Prior Art Detail
Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | Same general idea for non blocked deduplication |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Issued Patents - US |
| Country | United States of America |
| Patent/Application # | 12/356,921 |
| Kind Code | United States (US) - United STATES Patent - A |
| Patentee Name | Austin CLEMENTS, Irfan AHMAD, Jinyuan LI, Murali VILAYANNUR |
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| Filing Date | January 21, 2009 |
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Excerpt
Excerpt What is claimed is:
1. A data center comprising plural computer hosts and a storage system external to said hosts, said storage system including storage blocks for storing tangibly encoded data blocks, each of said hosts including a deduplicating file system for identifying and merging identical data blocks stored in respective storage blocks into one of said storage blocks so that a first file exclusively accessed by a first host of said hosts and a second file accessed exclusively by a second host of said hosts concurrently refer to the same one of said storage blocks.
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data deduplication with a medium
data deduplication with a medium
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