Patent ID: 8549223

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for reclaiming storage space on striped volumes, at least a portion of the method being performed by a computing device comprising at least one processor, the method comprising: identifying a volume striped across a set of storage devices; identifying a reclamation request to reclaim storage space allocated to the striped volume; identifying stripes of storage on the set of storage devices that are covered by the reclamation request; identifying a plurality of smaller reclamation requests that are required to reclaim the stripes of storage on the set of storage devices that are covered by the reclamation request; consolidating the plurality of smaller reclamation requests into a plurality of consolidated reclamation requests, wherein each consolidated reclamation request within the plurality of consolidated reclamation requests identifies, for a single storage device within the set of storage devices, each stripe of storage on the storage device that is covered by the reclamation request; issuing the plurality of consolidated reclamation requests to the set of storage devices.