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AssigneeEMC Corporation
InventorsMichael Kilian, Stephen Todd, Tom Teugels, Jan Van Riel, Carl D'Halluin
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One embodiment is a system for locating content on a storage system, in which the storage system provides a location hint to the host of where the data is physically stored, which the host can resubmit with future access requests. In another embodiment, an index that maps content addresses to physical storage locations is cached on the storage system. In yet another embodiment, intrinsic locations are used to select a storage location for newly written data based on an address of the data. In a further embodiment, units of data that are stored at approximately the same time having location index entries that are proximate in the index.
A method of processing data in a computer system comprising at least one host and at least one content addressable storage system which stores units of data for the at least one host, wherein the at least one host accesses a unit of data using a content address based at least in part on the content of the unit of data, the method comprising acts of:
At least one computer readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed on a computer system perform a method of processing data, wherein the computer system comprises at least one host and at least one content addressable storage system which stores units of data for the at least one host, and wherein the at least one host accesses a unit of data using a content address based at least in part on the content of the unit of data, the method comprising acts of:
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