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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2021
Vmware, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mahesh Hiregoudar, Bangalore, IN;
Prasanna Aithal, Bangalore, IN;
Prasad Rao Jangam, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Srinivasa Shantharam, Bangalore, IN;
Rohan Pasalkar, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Srikanth Mahabalarao, Bangalore, IN;
VMWARE, INC., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of deleting a first pointer block of a plurality of pointer blocks of a file system from a storage device used by a plurality of applications, wherein the plurality of pointer blocks are each subdivided into sub-blocks, includes the steps of: determining that a first sub-block of the first pointer block is marked as being empty of any addresses of the file system at which storage space is allocated to files of the applications, determining that a second sub-block of the first pointer block has not been marked as being empty; in response to the determining that the second sub-block has not been marked as being empty, determining that the second sub-block does not contain any addresses of the file system at which storage space is allocated to the files of the applications; and deleting the first pointer block from the storage device.