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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Nils Haustein, Soergenloch, DE;
Sandeep Ramesh Patil, Pune, IN;
Sasikanth Eda, Vijayawada, IN;
Dominic Mueller-Wicke, Weilburg, DE;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for operating a storage system comprising a file system for managing a data object in one or more storage blocks may be provided. The method comprising receiving from a file system manager a message indicating that the data objects is to be encrypted, determining, in response to the received message, a set of unallocated storage blocks that were previously allocated for storing at least a portion of the data object, and rendering content of the unallocated storage blocks of the set unreadable.