摘要:
A control method includes the steps of storing data in a cache; generating parity data corresponding to the data stored in the cache and storing the parity data in a buffer; writing the data stored in the cache and the parity data stored in the buffer into a plurality of the storage units; reading the data and the parity data from the plurality of storage units; checking error over the read out data by using the read out parity data; storing, if an error is detected in the read out data and the read out parity data, data for reading a plurality of data constituting a stripe in each of the plurality of storage units in the buffer, regenerating parity data by using the plurality of data readout from the storage units; and overwriting the plurality of data and the parity data into the plurality of the storage units.
摘要:
According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for controlling a controller connected to a plurality of storage units storing data, the controller including a cache and a buffer, the method comprising the steps of: storing data in the cache; generating parity data corresponding to the data and storing the parity data in the buffer; writing the data and the parity data into the plurality of the storage units; comparing the parity data stored in the buffer with the parity data written into and read out from at least one of the storage unit; deleting, when the parity data stored in the buffer is different from the parity data read out from the storage unit, the parity data from the buffer; and regenerating parity data from data stored in the cache and rewriting the regenerated parity data into at least one of the storage unit.
摘要:
According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for controlling a controller connected to a plurality of storage units storing data, the controller including a cache and a buffer, the method comprising the steps of: storing data in the cache; generating parity data corresponding to the data and storing the parity data in the buffer; writing the data and the parity data into the plurality of the storage units; comparing the parity data stored in the buffer with the parity data written into and read out from at least one of the storage unit; deleting, when the parity data stored in the buffer is different from the parity data read out from the storage unit, the parity data from the buffer; and regenerating parity data from data stored in the cache and rewriting the regenerated parity data into at least one of the storage unit.
摘要:
According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method for controlling a controller connected to a plurality of storage units which are arranged in a redundant configuration, the controller reading data stored in the plurality of storage units in accordance with requests received from a host computer, the method comprising the steps of: receiving requests to read data successively from one of the storage units from the host computer; reading a part of requested target data from said one of the storage units; reading associated data and parity data stored in other storage units corresponding to other part of requested target data; generating other part of requested target data on the basis of the associated data and the parity data read out from the other storage units; and transmitting the part of the target data and the other part of the target data to the host computer.
摘要:
A disk management method for managing a disk management device for writing and reading data to and from a disk drive in which a recording medium is managed in a first control unit. The disk management method includes an error checking operation for checking an error on the recording medium in the first control unit, an error correction operation for correcting the error detected in the error, an error correcting operation for correcting the error detected in the error checking operation after converting data including the error to the second control unit, a data loss registration operation for registering a region in which data are lost due to an inconsistency between the first control unit and second control unit in a data loss region table, and a data loss recovery operation for recovering the loss of data with reference to the data loss region table.
摘要:
A RAID apparatus includes a plurality of recording devices, a first adaptor connected to a first interface which is connected to a high-level apparatus, a controller for controlling processing of data transmitted by the high-level apparatus, and a second adaptor that connects to a second interface connected to a plurality of recording devices. The controller has a first memory area in which said data are stored, a second memory area used for a write-back of the data in said plurality of recording devices, a write-back information control unit controlling a write-back type of data stored in the first memory area and a usage state of the second memory area, a write-back data determination unit for determination of data to be written-back based on the write-back information, and a write-back execution unit for executing a write-back of the data to be written back on the plurality of recording devices.
摘要:
In a system for dispersively storing data and parity in a plurality of storage devices, information in a first storage device is restored by using information stored in the storage devices other than the first storage device when the first storage device fails. And information in a non-restored area in the first storage device and information in a second storage device are restored by using information stored in the storage devices other than the first and the second storage devices when the second storage device fails while the information in the first storage device is being restored.
摘要:
A RAID system access a physical disk according to a host I/O request, and perform Rebuild/Copy back processing, for implementing high-speed Rebuild/Copy back processing without interrupting the processing of a normal I/O. When one disk device out of a plurality of disk devices constituting the RAID configuration fails, the processing size for one time of Rebuild/Copy back to reconstruct the RAID is changed according to the presence of a normal I/O managed in RAID control. When a normal I/O is present, Rebuild/Copy back can be executed without interrupting the processing of the normal I/O, and in a static state where a normal I/O is absent, a processing size larger than the size in that state can be specified so as to implement Rebuild/Copy back processing at high-speed.
摘要:
Storage destination controller devices wherein N number of data strips and M number of parity strips comprised in each stripe are determined so that the parity strips are not continuously stored to the same memory device between two consecutive stripes when a plurality of stripes, each comprising the N number of data strips and the M number of parity strips of different types, are distributed and stored to the N+M number of memory devices.
摘要:
When a write-back request for writing back new data in a cache memory to disk devices forming a redundant configuration of RAID is generated, a write-back processing unit, reserves a parity buffer area in the cache memory, generates new parity, and then, writes the new data and the new parity to the corresponding disk devices. When an error in which the consistency of RAID is broken occurs in a plurality of the disk devices upon write performed by the write-back processing unit, a recovery processing unit reserves, in the cache memory, a cache stripe area storing data of the entire stripe including the new data which is to be written back, and causes the cache control unit to manage it.