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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Arunachalam Jayaraman, Chennai, IN;
Viren D. Parikh, Bangalore, IN;
Ramesh C. Pathak, Bangalore, IN;
Suryanarayana K. Rao, Bangalore, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product optimizes storage space usage. One or more processor, which implement a Smart Volume Manager, receive an input/output (I/O) client process that requests an I/O action from a file system storage device. In response to determining that the file system storage device is operating at 100% capacity, the Smart Volume Manager generates a dynamic virtual buffer disk group from multiple donor disk groups, and then redirects the I/O client process to the dynamic virtual buffer disk group, which is appended to the file system storage device to create an extended filesystem volume.