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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 07, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2017
Applicant:
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Andrew R. Bernat, Mountain View, CA (US);
Grigori Inozemtsev, San Jose, CA (US);
Iris McLeary, San Francisco, CA (US);
Benjamin Scholbrock, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0602 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0662 (2013.01); G06F 11/2089 (2013.01); G06F 2201/80 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for taking a storage device offline, performed by a storage system, is provided. The method includes reserving the storage device and stopping direction to increment a heartbeat counter of the storage device. The method includes verifying the heartbeat counter of the storage device is static, and performing, responsive to the verifying, an operation on the storage device, with the storage device offline relative to the storage system I/O of user data.