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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2017
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew R. Bernat, Mountain View, CA (US);
Grigori Inozemtsev, San Jose, CA (US);
Iris McLeary, San Francisco, CA (US);
Benjamin Scholbrock, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for device reservations in a storage system, performed by the storage system is provided. The method includes maintaining a list of a plurality of storage devices of the storage system or slots for the storage devices, and a status of each of the plurality of storage devices or slots for the storage devices. The method includes determining whether granting a request for a reservation of one of the plurality of storage devices or slots would result in the storage system having less than a quorum of online storage devices, and granting or rejecting the reservation, based on the determining.