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Space reporting in a storage system

US10474363B1 · kind B1 · utility

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48References

17Claims

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Assignee

PURE STORAGE, INC. · US

Inventors

Wentian Cui · Sunnyvale, US
MATTHEW FAY · Mountain View, US
Marina Galata · Sammamish, US
Richard Hankins · San Jose, US
Ganesh Ramanarayanan · Menlo Park, US
Cary Sandvig · San Jose, US
Zoheb Shivani · Newark, US
Scott Smith · San Mateo, US
SHISHIR YADAV · Sunnyvale, US

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 31, 2016
Grant date	Nov 12, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Feb 16, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F3/0683
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Space reporting in a storage system, including: determining, for one or more system-visible objects in the storage system, an amount of physical space consumed by each system-visible object and an amount of logical space consumed by each system-visible object; identifying, for each of the one or more system-visible objects in the storage system, one or more user-visible objects that reference the system-visible object; determining, for each of the one or more user-visible objects, an amount of physical space consumed by the user-visible object in dependence upon the amount of physical space consumed by each system-visible object referenced by the user-visible object; and determining, for each of the one or more user-visible objects, an amount of logical space consumed by the user-visible object in dependence upon the amount of logical space consumed by each system-visible object referenced by the user-visible object.

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