Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Identifying lost write errors in a raid array
- Patent Title (中): 识别RAID阵列中丢失的写入错误
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Application No.: US14087319Application Date: 2013-11-22
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Publication No.: US08880981B2Publication Date: 2014-11-04
- Inventor: Tomislav Grcanac , Atul Goel , Jagadish Vasudeva , Gururaj Mj
- Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: DeLizio Gilliam, PLLC
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00 ; G06F11/10

Abstract:
A data access request is received specifying a data block stored in a stripe of a parity group that includes a plurality of data storage devices to store data blocks and a parity storage device to store parity information for the data. The stripe includes a data block from each of the plurality of data storage devices and the stripe includes a parity block from the parity storage device. An error is detected in the data block specified by the data access request. The error is identified as a lost write error for the data block or a lost write error for the parity block. Identifying the error includes comparing a first storage device signature stored in a metadata field associated with the data block to a second storage device signature stored in a label block identifying a data storage device where the data block is stored.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140164825A1 IDENTIFYING LOST WRITE ERRORS IN A RAID ARRAY Public/Granted day:2014-06-12
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