Patent ID: 11960393
Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method for adjusting over provisioning space in a storage system, implemented by the storage system, and comprising:
providing a flash device for communication with a host in the storage system, wherein the flash device is in the storage system;
obtaining a first capacity of all free space in a user storage space, wherein the free space is empty, wherein the user storage space is in a physical storage space of the flash device, and wherein the user storage space is for storing user data from the host; and
adjusting a second capacity of over-provisioning (OP) space by adding all the first capacity to the OP space to obtain an adjusted second capacity,
wherein the OP space is in the physical storage space, and
wherein the OP space is for wear leveling (WL), garbage collection (GC), and bad block mapping.