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The array underlying a slice may extend past the end of the slice.
The <i>capacity</i> is a measure of that extent: it is the sum of
the length of the slice and the length of the array beyond the slice;
a slice of length up to that capacity can be created by
<a href="#Slice_expressions"><i>slicing</i></a> a new one from the original slice.
The capacity of a slice <code>a</code> can be discovered using the

### Storage Capacity Tracking

- The `StorageCapacityScoring` feature gate was added to score nodes by available storage capacity. It's in alpha and disabled by default. The `VolumeCapacityPriority` alpha feature was replaced with this, and the default behavior was changed. The `VolumeCapacityPriority` preferred a node with the least allocatable, but the `StorageCapacityScoring`...

### Promoted Local Ephemeral Storage Capacity Isolation to Stable

* Kubelet will now set extended resource capacity to zero after it restarts. If the extended resource is exported by a device plugin, its capacity will change to a valid value after the device plugin re-connects with the Kubelet. If the extended resource is exported by an external component through direct node status capacity patching, the component should repatch the field after kubelet becomes ready again. During the time gap, pods...

  - Added user-owned fields in `ResourceClaim` to specify resource requirements against each device capacity.
  - Added scheduler-owned field in `ResourceClaim.Status` to specify how much device capacity is reserved for a specific request.

* Fix CSI volume limits not showing up in node's capacity and allocatable ([#70540](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70540), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

* Enforcement of fsGroup; enable ScaleIO multiple-instance volume mapping; default PVC capacity; alignment of PVC, PV, and volume names for dynamic provisioning ([#48999](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/48999), [@vladimirvivien](https://github.com/vladimirvivien))



# v1.7.4

* [stable] Support Attach and Detach operations for ReadWriteOnce (RWO) volumes that use iSCSI and Fibre Channel plugins.

* [stable] Expose storage usage metrics

  * The available capacity of a given Persistent Volume (PV) is available by calling the Kubernetes metrics API.

* [stable] Volume plugin metrics

### Storage Capacity and Volume Expansion Are Generally Available

[Storage capacity tracking](https://github.com/kubernetes/enhancements/issues/1472)
supports exposing currently available storage capacity via [CSIStorageCapacity objects](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/storage/storage-capacity/#api)
and enhances scheduling of pods that use CSI volumes with late binding.