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2005-10-11

2005-10-11

Chace, Christian P. (Department: 2189)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Control technique

C711S170000, C707S793000, C710S056000, C710S057000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06954831

ABSTRACT:
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for borrow processing in storage pools. A plurality of physical volumes are allocated to a first storage pool. A determination is made whether the first storage pool has less than a threshold number of empty physical volumes. If the first storage pool has less than the threshold number of empty physical volumes, then at least one empty physical volume is borrowed to the first storage pool from a second storage pool.

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