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Piers Yu

William C Davenport

Walter Forrester

Jun Hui Liu

Ahsan Rashid

Michael C Brundage

Yining Si

Xianlong Liu

Ruiling Dou

Kamakshi Viswanadha

Yunfei Chen

Yan Xu

Jianhua Shao

Banghui Luo

Alex Zhongbing Yang

Sean Liu

Steve Zhuxiong Ai

Yina Huang

Technique for determining a data recovery duration involve determining a plurality of phases of data recovery. Such techniques further involve determining, based on a metadata metric set of a phase in the plurality of phases, a recovery duration of the phase, the recovery duration of the phase representing a duration required for recovery of the phase. Such techniques further involve determining the data recovery duration based on the recovery duration of the phase. Accordingly, a data recovery duration can be accurately predicted, and a user can know in advance how long data unavailability will last, which helps the user make a decision to schedule the data recovery in an appropriate time period, thereby being more effective and efficient for the user.

Method, device, and computer program product for determining data recovery duration

In response to detecting that at least one snapshot group identifier has been allocated that has a maximum snapshot group identifier value, snapshot group identifiers are allocated to each newly created snapshot group by finding a previously allocated snapshot group identifier that is currently unused, and allocating the previously allocated snapshot group identifier that is currently unused to the newly created snapshot group.

Allocating snapshot group identifiers

Techniques for improving storage efficiency of a data storage system are provided. The techniques include (a) performing a testing operation to evaluate whether a test condition is satisfied for a filesystem having a plurality of subspaces, each subspace being provisioned with a respective amount of storage, each subspace of the filesystem being dedicated to storing different respective types of filesystem content, wherein the test condition indicates that a first subspace has available space in excess of a threshold percentage, (b) in response to determining that the test condition is satisfied for the filesystem, performing a reduction operation on the first subspace to remove a portion of storage provisioned to that subspace while retaining the removed portion for use by the filesystem, and (c) upon a second subspace reaching a fullness threshold, provisioning the removed portion to the second subspace and storing content of the respective type of the second subspace thereon.

Techniques for rebalancing storage between subspaces

A method is used in managing provisioning of storage in storage systems. Whether a logical object requires a slice for recovering the logical object is determined. Based on the determination, storage for the slice is provisioned. The slice is provided to the logical object.

Managing provisioning of storage in storage systems

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