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Updating raid stripe parity calculations

US10891192B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateSep 17, 2019
Grant dateJan 12, 2021
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Expiry dateSep 17, 2039

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F3/0688
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for incremental RAID stripe update parity calculations. The method includes: receiving, at a first set of solid state drives, a last portion of a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) stripe among multiple portions of the RAID stripe, wherein the RAID stripe includes multiple shards, and wherein each previous portion of the RAID stripe is written to the first set of solid state drives; calculating a current parity value based on the last portion of the RAID stripe and a previous parity value updated after receiving each previous portion of the RAID stripe; and responsive to receiving all portions of a shard of the RAID stripe, copying the shard of the RAID stripe from the first set of solid state drives to a second set of solid state drives.

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