International Business Machines Corporation

Pure Storage, Inc.

Anthony J Baldocchi

Ilya Volvovski

Manish Motwani

Jason K Resch

Ethan S Wozniak

Shaorong Liu

Jordan Harrison Williams

Greg R Dhuse

Andrew D Baptist

Ravi V Khadiwala

Thomas Darrel Cocagne

Michael Colin Storm

Joseph M Kaczmarek

A method includes determining rebuilding performance parameter values for a storage unit of a set of storage units, where data is dispersed storage error encoded into a plurality of sets of encoded data slices in accordance with error encoding parameters, and a set of encoded data slices are stored or are to be stored in the set of storage units. The method includes updating a rate of internal rebuilding of encoded data slices by the storage unit based on the rebuilding performance parameter values. During internally rebuilding, the method includes correcting detected storage errors for one or more first encoded data slices within the storage unit. The method includes receiving a rebuilt encoded data slice from another computing device of the storage network and when the received rebuilt encoded data slice is not included in the one or more first encoded data slices, storing the received rebuilt encoded data slice.

Dispersed rebuilding of encoded data slices in a storage network

A method for updating software of storage units of a set of storage units in a storage network. In an embodiment, each storage unit of the set of storage units determines a data slice storage status for data slices stored in the storage unit (e.g., by monitoring rebuilding messages relating to the data slices). A processing module of the storage network obtains the data slice storage status of the storage units of the set of storage units and determines whether to perform a software update to software of the storage units of the set of storage units. Determining whether to perform the software update includes determining, based on the data slice storage status of the storage units, whether a threshold number of storage units are associated with a favorable data slice storage status. In response to determining that a threshold number of storage units are associated with a favorable data slice storage status, the processing module indicates to perform the software update.

Updating the configuration of storage units of a storage network

A method for execution by a request scheduler includes receiving a set of requests for execution from at least one request issuer. Resource requirements are determined for each of the set of requests, and current resource availability data is determined for resources indicated in the resource requirements. Scheduling data is generated for the set of requests based on the resource requirements and the current resource availability data. A first subset of the set of requests are added to a queue in response to the scheduling data indicating the first subset of the set of requests be queued for execution. Execution of the set of requests is facilitated in accordance with the scheduling data by facilitating immediate, simultaneous execution of a second subset of the set of requests and by facilitating serial execution of the first subset of the set of requests.

Scheduling requests based on resource information

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Anthony J Baldocchi