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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2023
Dell Products L.p., Round Rock, TX (US);
Yosef Shatsky, Karnei Shomron, IL;
Doron Tal, Geva Carmel, IL;
Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided for managing a dynamic reserve capacity of a block storage system. A storage control system partitions a storage capacity of at least one storage device into a plurality of blocks for storing data. A data access operation is performed by the storage control system which results in invalidating at least a portion of data stored in a given block. In response to the invalidating, the storage control system determines a degree of invalid data in the given block, and compares the determined degree of invalid data to a utilization threshold. The storage control system designates the given block as fully utilized in response to determining that the degree of invalid data does not exceed the utilization threshold, and designates a capacity of the given block that is occupied by the invalid data to be part of a reserve capacity of the at least one storage device.