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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 01, 2018
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Harsha Hegde, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Venkata G. Badanahatti, Bloomingdale, IL (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for responding to a read request from a user for a set of encoded data slices (EDSs) in a distributed storage network begins with a processing module determining that a threshold number of encoded data slices is not available and continues with the processing module determining that one or more copies are available for the set of EDSs. The method continues with the processing module determining whether a combination of the one or more additional EDSs within the copy of the set of EDSs and the available EDSs from the set of EDSs is at least a read threshold number of EDSs, and when a read threshold is available based on the combination the processing module responds to the request using the combination.