GENERATING AND MORPHING A COLLECTION OF FILES IN A FOLDER/SUB-FOLDER STRUCTURE THAT COLLECTIVELY HAS DESIRED DEDUPABILITY, COMPRESSION, CLUSTERING AND COMMONALITY

摘要

One example method includes receiving a set of filesystem parameters, creating a simulated filesystem based on the filesystem parameters, receiving a set of target characteristics for a file collection, based on the target characteristics, slicing a datastream into a grouping of data slices, populating the simulated files with the data slices to create the file collection and forward or reverse morphing the file collection from one generation to another without rewriting the entire file collection.