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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 03, 2018
Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Adam Roberts, Moncure, NC (US);
WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Example peer storage systems, storage devices, and methods provide peer operation state indicators for managing peer-to-peer operations. Peer storage devices establish peer communication channels that communicate data among the peer storage devices that bypasses the storage control plane for managing the peer storage devices. The peer storage devices identify peer operations that communicate data through the peer communication channels and generate a peer operation state during the operating period of the peer operations. The peer storage devices activate a state indicator configured to indicate the peer operation state. The state indicator may be used to prevent a storage controller or other entity with access to the storage device, including administrative personnel, from performing an operation that may corrupt data or truncate a media operation involving peer-to-peer communications.