Direct addressing in virtual addressed systems

A method, comprising:

• obtaining, by a system comprising a processor and in response to receiving a request to access a data item stored by a storage system, address information for the data item from a data structure, the address information comprising a first physical storage address of the storage system, a first generation number associated with the first physical storage address in the data structure, and an address redirector;
• and
• accessing, by the system and in response to the first generation number being determined to be different from a second generation number associated with the first physical storage address, the data item at a second physical storage address of the storage system instead of the first physical storage address, the second physical storage address being determined based on the address redirector.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising computer executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• determining, based on a data structure associated with a data item, address information for the data item, the address information comprising a first physical address, a first generation number associated with the first physical address in the data structure, and a virtual address;
• and
• in response to the first generation number being determined to be different from a second generation number assigned to a storage location given by the first physical address, accessing the data item at a second physical address instead of the first physical address, wherein the second physical address is associated with the virtual address.