Invention Grant
- Patent Title: File system driven raid rebuild technique
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Application No.: US15166600Application Date: 2016-05-27
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Publication No.: US10013311B2Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Rajesh Sundaram , Bharat Baddepudi , Jeffrey S. Kimmel , T. Byron Rakitzis
- Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Cesari and McKenna, LLP
- Main IPC: G06F11/10
- IPC: G06F11/10 ; G06F3/06 ; G06F17/30 ; G11C29/52

Abstract:
Embodiments described herein are directed to a file system driven RAID rebuild technique. A layered file system may organize storage of data as segments spanning one or more sets of storage devices, such as solid state drives (SSDs), of a storage array, wherein each set of SSDs may form a RAID group configured to provide data redundancy for a segment. The file system may then drive (i.e., initiate) rebuild of a RAID configuration of the SSDs on a segment-by-segment basis in response to cleaning of the segment (i.e., segment cleaning). Each segment may include one or more RAID stripes that provide a level of data redundancy (e.g., single parity RAID 5 or double parity RAID 6) as well as RAID organization (i.e., distribution of data and parity) for the segment. Notably, the level of data redundancy and RAID organization may differ among the segments of the array.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160274973A1 FILE SYSTEM DRIVEN RAID REBUILD TECHNIQUE Public/Granted day:2016-09-22
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