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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2016
Applicant:
Nexenta Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ilya Usvyatsky, Northborough, MA (US);
Caitlin Bestler, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Dmitry Yusupov, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Nexenta Systems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01); H03M 13/15 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1092 (2013.01); G06F 11/1435 (2013.01); G06F 11/1453 (2013.01); H03M 13/1505 (2013.01); H04L 67/1095 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and system for providing parity protection in an object storage system. The present invention allows for tracking the storage requirements for chunks in a distributed storage cluster when transitioning from replica-based protection to parity or erasure coding-based protection and when transitioning from parity or erasure coding-based protection to replica-based protection.