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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2016
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Wentian Cui, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Matthew Fay, Mountain View, CA (US);
Marina Galata, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard Hankins, San Jose, CA (US);
Ganesh Ramanarayanan, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Cary Sandvig, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Zoheb Shivani, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Scott Smith, San Mateo, CA (US);
Shishir Yadav, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
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.