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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ilya Volvovski, Chicago, IL (US);
Bruno H. Cabral, Chicago, IL (US);
Manish Motwani, Chicago, IL (US);
Thomas D. Cocagne, Elk Grove Village, IL (US);
Timothy W. Markison, Mesa, AZ (US);
Gary W. Grube, Barrington Hills, IL (US);
Wesley B. Leggette, Chicago, IL (US);
Jason K. Resch, Chicago, IL (US);
Michael Colin Storm, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Greg R. Dhuse, Chicago, IL (US);
Yogesh R. Vedpathak, Chicago, IL (US);
Ravi V. Khadiwala, Bartlett, IL (US);
PURE STORAGE, INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for execution by a processing system of a dispersed storage and task (DST) processing unit comprises: receiving one or more encoded data slices for storage; storing the one or more encoded data slices in one or more memories of a set of memories; determining a level redundancy for the one or more encoded data slices; generating redundancy information for the one or more encoded data slices in accordance with the level redundancy; storing the redundancy information in another one or more memories of the set of memories; determining to update the level of redundancy; determining an updated level of redundancy based on one or more of a storage utilization level and a storage reliability level; updating the redundancy information based on the updated level of redundancy and updating storage of the redundancy information based on the updated redundancy information.