Maintaining storage array online
US11086740B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 10, 2018 |
| Grant date | Aug 10, 2021 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 23, 2039 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F2201/82
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system and computer program product for maintaining a storage array online. According to the method, an unrecoverable error is detected by one or more processors as having occurred in a failed disk of a storage array in first storage. The failed disk is replaced with a spare disk in the first storage. Data is retrieved from a second storage for storing into a stripe of the first storage based on address information of a data block of the failed disk. The second storage stores mirrored data of data stored in the first storage. The stripe includes data blocks distributed across all disks in the storage array of the first storage. The retrieved data is caused to be written into the stripe of the storage array of the first storage. In other embodiments, a system and a computer program product are disclosed.
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