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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2024
Vmware Llc, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rohan Pasalkar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Prasad Rao Jangam, Bangalore, IN;
Rahul Kunigal Ravishankar, Bangalore, IN;
Pannagashree Mohanakumar, Bangalore, IN;
Satyajit Kanungo, Bangalore, IN;
VMware LLC, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A host computer is configured to issue one or more unmap commands to a file system of a storage device, the file system being shared by a plurality of host computers including the host computer, by performing the steps of: acquiring unmap privilege information from the storage device, the unmap privilege information indicating whether or not an unmap privilege is available to the host computer; in response to determining that the unmap privilege is available, transmitting a request to update an unmap privilege file stored in the storage device to indicate that the host computer has the unmap privilege; and then issuing to the file system, the one or more unmap commands to deallocate storage space from one or more files of the file system.