Ensuring crash-safe forward progress of a system configuration update
US10353777B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 30, 2015 |
| Grant date | Jul 16, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 27, 2036 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/1076
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Ensuring crash-safe forward progress of a system configuration update in a storage system that includes a storage array controller and a plurality of storage devices, including: determining a number of storage devices in the storage system; determining a number of unavailable storage devices in the storage system; and determining, for the one or more system configurations, whether the system configuration can be reconstructed in dependence upon the number of storage devices in the storage system and the number of unavailable storage devices in the storage system.
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