Merge pull request #270552 from normesta/inventory

Adding text to address a CSS item

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articles/storage/blobs/blob-inventory.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ services: storage
 author: normesta
 
 ms.service: azure-blob-storage
-ms.date: 10/23/2023
+ms.date: 03/28/2024
 ms.topic: conceptual
 ms.author: normesta
 ms.custom: references_regions
@@ -425,6 +425,12 @@ An object replication policy can prevent an inventory job from writing inventory
 
 You can't configure an inventory policy in the account if support for version-level immutability is enabled on that account, or if support for version-level immutability is enabled on the destination container that is defined in the inventory policy.
 
+### Reports might exclude soft-deleted blobs in accounts that have a hierarchical namespace
+
+If a container or directory is deleted with soft-delete enabled, then the container or directory and all its contents are marked as soft-deleted. However, only the container or directory (reported as a zero-length blob) appears in an inventory report and not the soft-deleted blobs in that container or directory even if you set the `includeDeleted` field of the policy to **true**.  This can lead to a difference between what appears in capacity metrics that you obtain in the Azure Portal and what is reported by an inventory report. 
+
+Only blobs that are explicitly deleted appear in reports. Therefore, to obtain a complete listing of all soft-deleted blobs (directory and all child blobs), workloads should delete each blob in a directory before deleting the directory itself.
+
 ## Next steps
 
 - [Enable Azure Storage blob inventory reports](blob-inventory-how-to.md)