Graid Technology Inc.

Jin-Jhang Lee

Cheng-Yue Chang

Guo-Fu Tseng

Bo-Yi Sung

Po-Ting Liu

Distributed journaling for write operations to RAID systems is disclosed, including: receiving a new write operation to a plurality of storage devices associated with a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) group, wherein the plurality of storage devices comprises a main data storage and a non-volatile journal storage; writing a record of the new write operation to the non-volatile journal storage; after the record of the new write operation is written to the non-volatile journal storage, writing new data associated with the new write operation to the main data storage; and after the new data associated with the new write operation is written to the main data storage, invalidating the record of the new write operation in the non-volatile journal storage, wherein upon restarting the plurality of storage devices associated with the RAID group, the non-volatile journal storage is checked and valid records of one or more write operations included in the non-volatile journal storage are written to the main data storage.

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Taipei, Taiwan

Jin-Jhang Lee