ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,161, issued on June 17, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Reducing provisioned storage capacity of an aggregate of a storage appliance" was invented by Mrinal K. Bhattacharjee (Bangalore, India), Sreenath Korrakuti (Bangalore, India) and Sateesh Kumar Pola (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for reducing the provisioned storage capacity of a disk or aggregate of disks of a storage appliance while the storage appliance continues to serve clients are provided. According to one embodiment, the size of the aggregate may be reduced by shrinking the file system of the storage appliance and re...