Space recovery for thin-provisioned storage volumes
Methods are provided to write zeroes to logical blocks of a thin-provisioned volume mapped to a deleted file or a dummy file in the host file system. This causes the thin-provisioned volume to map these logical blocks to a common storage space that contains all zeroes so that storage space previousl...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Methods are provided to write zeroes to logical blocks of a thin-provisioned volume mapped to a deleted file or a dummy file in the host file system. This causes the thin-provisioned volume to map these logical blocks to a common storage space that contains all zeroes so that storage space previously mapped to these logical blocks is free to be reused. |
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