Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Block storage relocation on failure
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Application No.: US15620478Application Date: 2017-06-12
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Publication No.: US10372561B1Publication Date: 2019-08-06
- Inventor: Danny Wei , Shiow-wen Wendy Cheng
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Hogan Lovells US LLP
- Main IPC: G06F11/00
- IPC: G06F11/00 ; G06F11/16 ; G06F12/1009 ; G06F12/1072

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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