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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2025
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Asimuddin Kazi, Naperville, IL (US);
Patrick Aaron Tamborski, Chicago, IL (US);
Parker Swanson, Chicago, IL (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method includes receiving, at a management device from a first storage device, a first indication of compaction being performed on one or more drives of the first storage device of a plurality of storage devices. The first indication of compaction includes a drive identifier for the one or more drives and namespace range information associated with the one or more drives that are performing compaction. The compaction is triggered based on the namespace range information. The method further includes selecting drives for a second storage device that can perform compaction such that a namespace range is covered by enough non-compacting drives on the second storage device to service an input/output request without using the drives of the first storage device performing compaction. The method further includes transmitting, by the management device, a second indication of the selected drives to the second storage device.