Preserving tolerance to storage device failures in a storage system
US11263096B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 23, 2020 |
| Grant date | Mar 1, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 23, 2040 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F11/1466
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Ensuring resiliency to storage device failures in a storage system, including: determining a number of storage device failures within a particular write group that are to be tolerated by the storage system; for a plurality of datasets stored within the storage system, writing each dataset to at least a predetermined number of storage devices within the particular write group, wherein the predetermined number of storage devices is greater than the number of storage device failures within the particular write group that are to be tolerated by the storage system; and responsive to recovering from a system interruption: determining a number of readable storage devices that contain a copy of the dataset; and if the number of readable storage devices that contain a copy of the dataset is not greater than the number of failures that are to be tolerated, writing the dataset to one or more additional storage devices.
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