Block storage relocation on failure
Abstract:
A failure of a storage device used to provide a mirrored storage volume can be managed without a full re-mirroring of the volume. The volume can be provided using a set of similar storage devices on each of a master server and a slave server, and a technique such as data striping can be used to store the data for the volume across the various devices. When a storage device becomes unavailable, the data from the corresponding storage device on the other mirrored server can be written to the remaining storage devices on the server experiencing the device failure. The data interface can be virtualized such that the user can continue to send input and output (I/O) requests using the same address information. A translation layer can map the virtualized addresses to the physical addresses where the data is stored.
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