摘要 |
A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module interpreting a data retrieval request to identify a dispersed storage network (DSN) address to retrieve a DS error encoded data object. The method continues with the DS processing module DS error decoding the DS error encoded data object to recover the data object and determining whether the data object corresponds to a segment allocation table or to one of a plurality of data segments. When the data object corresponds to the segment allocation table, the method continues with the DS processing module utilizing the segment allocation table to retrieve a plurality of DS error encoded data segments. When the data object corresponds to the one of the plurality of data segments, the method continues with the DS processing module utilizing information in the one of the plurality of data segments to identify other DS error encoded data segments.
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