Abstract:While deduplication brings the advantage of significant space savings in storage, it nevertheless incurs the overhead of maintaining huge metadata. Updating such huge metadata during the data migration that arises due to load balancing activity results in significant overhead. In order to reduce this metadata update overhead, this paper proposes a suitable alternate index that tracks the data blocks even when they migrate across the nodes without explicitly storing the location information. In addition, a virt… Show more
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