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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
May. 14, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Jason K. Resch, Chicago, IL (US);
Andrew D. Baptist, Mt. Pleasant, WI (US);
Niall J. McShane, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Greg R. Dhuse, Chicago, IL (US);
Thomas F. Shirley, Jr., Wauwatosa, WI (US);
Gregory Palinckx, Cherry Hills Village, CO (US);
Russell P. Kennedy, Boulder, CO (US);
S. Christopher Gladwin, Chicago, IL (US);
Robert C. McCammon, Downer Grove, IL (US);
James Sherer, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
PURE STORAGE, INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for execution by a dispersed storage and task (DST) processing unit that includes a processor includes determining to access a set of storage units; identifying an information dispersal algorithm (IDA) width and a decode threshold number associated with the set of storage units; determining a number of available storage units of the set of storage units; determining a write threshold number and a read threshold number based on the number of available storage units and in accordance with a consistency approach; and accessing at least some of the available storage units utilizing at least one of the write and read threshold numbers.