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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 21, 2019
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Russell Sears, San Jose, CA (US);
Surya Pratim Mukherjee, Cupertino, CA (US);
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system includes a solid-state storage array having a plurality of solid-state storage devices and a storage controller coupled to the solid-state storage array, the storage controller including a processing device, the processing device to determine that a first allocation unit has a first portion occupying a first plurality of erase blocks and a second portion sharing a second erase block with a portion of a second allocation unit. The processing device is further to relocate data of the portion of the second allocation unit sharing the second erase block with the second portion of the first allocation unit to another erase block and in response to relocating the data of the portion of the second allocation unit, reclaim the first plurality of erase blocks and the second erase block.