Efficient data movement within file system volumes

At a computer system including at least one processor, a computer-implemented method for efficiently storing data, the method comprising:

• accessing one or more portions of use information for a set of storage containers, the storage containers comprising logical portions of a data store;
• determining that data stored in at least one of the storage containers includes data that has specified characteristics that meet one or more criteria;
• based on the one or more criteria, determining which operations are to be performed on the data associated with the container;
• and
• performing those operations on the data of the container.

A computer system comprising the following:

• one or more processors;
• one or more computer-readable storage media having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the computing system to perform a method for efficiently managing data storage, the method comprising the following:
• receiving a write request addressed to a first portion of data storage within a data store;
• redirecting the received write request to a second portion data storage within the data store, the second portion of data storage including one or more storage containers, each storage container comprising a logically specified portion of the data store;
• determining which storage container the received write request is to write to on the second portion of data storage;
• identifying at least one storage container that is to be de-staged from the second portion of data storage to the first portion of data storage;
• and
• de-staging the identified storage containers to the first portion of data storage, wherein the data of the de-staged container is stored sequentially on the first portion of data storage.