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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Andrew D. Baptist, Mt. Pleasant, WI (US);
Greg R. Dhuse, Chicago, IL (US);
Ravi V. Khadiwala, Bartlett, IL (US);
Jason K. Resch, Chicago, IL (US);
Wesley B. Leggette, Chicago, IL (US);
Trevor J. Vossberg, Chicago, IL (US);
S. Christopher Gladwin, Chicago, IL (US);
PURE STORAGE, INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method begins by sending a set of read requests to a first set of storage units of the DSN. The method continues by sending a set of read foreign requests to a second set of storage units of the DSN. The method continues by receiving favorable responses to the set of read requests. When a favorable response is received regarding the read foreign request, the method continues by determining whether an encoded data slice (EDS) contained in the favorable response is needed to obtain a decode threshold number of EDSs. When the EDS is needed, the method continues by including the EDSs contained in the favorable response regarding the read foreign request with other EDSs received in the favorable responses to the set of read requests to produce the decode threshold number of EDSs. The method continues by decoding the threshold number of EDSs to recover the data segment.