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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Duane M. Baldwin, Rochester, MN (US);
Sandeep R. Patil, Pune, IN;
Riyazahamad M. Shiraguppi, Pune, IN;
Prashant Sodhiya, Pune, IN;
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for optimizing selection of files for eviction from a first storage pool to free up a predetermined amount of space in the first storage pool. A method includes analyzing an effective space occupied by each file of a plurality of files in the first storage pool, selecting one or more of the plurality of files as one or more candidate files for eviction, based on the identified one or more data blocks, and evicting the one or more candidate files for eviction from the first storage pool to a second storage pool.