US Patent 11461276 Method and device for deduplication

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and device for deduplication. Specifically, the method may comprise obtaining a property of a file stream, the property of a file stream including a file type or a magic number identifying a format of a protocol or a file. The method further includes in response to receiving an I/O request for a data block of the file stream, assigning a deduplication level to the I/O request based on the property of the file stream. Moreover, the method further includes deduplicating the data block of the file stream based on the deduplication level assigned to the I/O request. In addition, a corresponding device and computer program product are provided.