Metadata compaction

A non-transitory machine readable medium comprising instructions for performing a method, which when executed by a machine, causes the machine to:

• represent an object as a structure comprising data blocks within which data of the object is stored and indirect blocks comprising block numbers of where the data blocks are located in storage;
• compact block numbers within a set of indirect blocks into a compacted indirect block;
• and
• store the compacted indirect block into memory for processing access operations to the object.

A computing device comprising:

• a memory comprising machine executable code for performing a method;
• and
• a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute the machine executable code to cause the processor to:
• represent an object as a structure comprising data blocks within which data of the object is stored and indirect blocks comprising block numbers of where the data blocks are located in storage;
• compact block numbers within a set of indirect blocks into a compacted indirect block;
• and
• store the compacted indirect block into memory for processing access operations to the object.