公开(公告)号：US20240419363A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-19

申请号：US18815747

申请日：2024-08-26

Applicant: NetApp, Inc.

Inventor： Ananthan Subramanian ,  Kumaran Nagappen ,  Sriram Venketaraman ,  Szu-Wen Kuo ,  Yong Eun Cho

IPC: G06F3/06

Abstract: Techniques are provided for compacting indirect blocks. For example, an object is represented 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. Block numbers within a set of indirect blocks are compacted into a compacted indirect block comprising a base block number, a count of additional block numbers after the base block number in the compacted indirect block, and a pattern of the block numbers in the compacted indirect block. The compacted indirect block is stored into memory for processing access operations to the object. Storing compacted indirect blocks into memory allows for more block numbers to be stored within memory. This improves the processing of access operations because reading the block numbers from memory is faster than loading the block numbers from disk.