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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
May. 26, 2009
Vijayan Rajan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Brittain Bolen, Durham, NC (US);
Douglas P. Doucette, Freeland, WA (US);
Vijayan Rajan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
David Brittain Bolen, Durham, NC (US);
Douglas P. Doucette, Freeland, WA (US);
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for operating a computer storage system maintains a client computer interacting with the storage system, the client computer storing data on a data storage device of the computer storage system. Locating, by a client-side agent executing on the client computer that examines metadata of the client computer, one or more sets of blocks allocated and then deleted, hereinafter referred to as deleted blocks, within the computer storage system. Sending a command to the storage system, the command to identify the deleted blocks within the computer storage system. Deallocating, in response to receiving the command, the identified deleted blocks within the computer storage system.