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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2019
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Lior Kamran, Rishon LeZion, IL;
Alex Soukhman, Raanana, IL;
Marcelo Taube, Tel Aviv, IL;
Ronen Gazit, Tel Aviv, IL;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for storing data in a storage system is provided, the method including: receiving a request to store data in a RAID volume of the storage system; selecting a stripe block size that is supported by the RAID volume, the RAID volume including a plurality of stripes that are formed of blocks having the selected stripe block size; and identifying a given one of the plurality of stripes that includes enough free space to accommodate the data and storing the data in the given stripe, the given stripe including a smaller amount of free space than at least some of the stripes in the plurality that have sufficient free space to accommodate the data.