Patent ID: 11886707
Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. An apparatus including a computer memory and a computer processor, the computer processor including computer program instructions that, when executed by the computer processor, cause the apparatus to carry out the steps of:
determining, by a controller in a storage system, that a storage capacity allocated to a file system for a dataset is greater than a utilized capacity for the dataset;
providing an alert that the storage capacity allocated to the file system for the dataset is greater than the utilized capacity for the dataset;
identifying one or more portions of storage space that are no longer in use by the dataset; and
issuing, based on an amount of reclaimable space in the one or more portions of storage space, a command to free the identified one or more portions of storage space.