US 12,236,122 B2
Dynamic volume adjustment
Ganesh Sangle, Sunnyvale, CA (US); and Vinod Jayaraman, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Pure Storage, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed by Pure Storage, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/216,421.
Application 18/216,421 is a continuation of application No. 17/185,779, filed on Feb. 25, 2021, granted, now 11,733,897.
Prior Publication US 2023/0342057 A1, Oct. 26, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0644 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0604 (2013.01); G06F 3/0665 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
storing a virtual storage volume across a plurality of storage nodes, wherein the virtual storage volume comprises one or more chunks stored on a set of storage nodes in the plurality of storage nodes; and
adjusting the one or more chunks that make up the virtual storage volume, without taking the virtual storage volume offline, wherein the adjusting comprises reducing a size of each of the one or more chunks to a reduced chunk size and adding one or more new chunks with the reduced chunk size.