Method for automatically managing disk fragmentation

Details Method for automatically managing disk fragmentation Method for automatically managing disk fragmentation

2006-10-06

2010-02-09

Trujillo, James (Department: 2159)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

Reexamination Certificate

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07660837

ABSTRACT:
In the current invention, an apparatus, method, and computer program product for allocating a contiguous area of memory from a repository are provided. In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a repository pointer to a contiguous set of data blocks in the repository and a system pointer operable to point to the contiguous set of data blocks are allocated. The value of the repository pointer is subsequently assigned to the system pointer.

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