Patent ID: 9483494
Filing Date: 2016-11-01
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: receiving data generated to perform processing other than fragmentation repair; using at least a portion of the received data to compute a locality measure with respect to a group of segments comprising a portion of a file, wherein the locality measure is computed based at least in part on a comparison between a number of containers required to be loaded to access segments comprising the group and a reference number of containers associated with accessing segments comprising the group and wherein the locality measure is computed based at least in part on an extent to which containers that store segments comprising the group are utilized to store segments comprising the group; and making, based at least in part on the computed locality measure and a threshold, a decision whether to repair fragmentation of the segments comprising the group, wherein to repair fragmentation of the segments comprising the group includes packing the segments into new containers to reduce a value of the computed locality measure.