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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2009
David A. Goebel, Vashon, WA (US);
James M. Lyon, Redmond, WA (US);
Bulat Shelepov, Bellevue, WA (US);
Robert S. Kleinschmidt, Redmond, WA (US);
Mark Vayman, Redmond, WA (US);
David A. Goebel, Vashon, WA (US);
James M. Lyon, Redmond, WA (US);
Bulat Shelepov, Bellevue, WA (US);
Robert S. Kleinschmidt, Redmond, WA (US);
Mark Vayman, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A thin provisioned storage system may have a file system manager that presents a logical storage system to a user and a storage management system that manages physical storage devices. When a block of data is freed at the logical layer, the file system manager may identify the freed block and send a command to the physical layer. The physical layer may identify the corresponding physical block or blocks and free those blocks on the physical layer. The storage management system may use a table to manage the location of blocks of data across multiple physical storage devices.