Patent attributes
A method for compressing is provided. The method including receiving a block of data to store on at least one physical disk; determining whether to store the data in a data log as uncompressed or compressed data based on a determined size of resulting compressed data. When the method determines to store the data as compressed, compressing the data and storing the compressed data in at least one sector in the data log. Otherwise, the method stores the data, uncompressed, in a plurality of sectors in the data log. The method generates a one or more state bits indicating (i) whether the data is stored as uncompressed or compressed, and (ii) if the data is stored as compressed, a size of the compressed data. The method then stores the one or more state bits in an entry of a logical map table associated with an LBA that corresponds to the data block.
