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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 24, 2020
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew R. Bernat, Mountain View, CA (US);
Timothy W. Brennan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mark L. McAuliffe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Neil Buda Vachharajani, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for rebuilding data when changing erase block sizes in a storage system is provided. The method includes determining one or more erase blocks to be rebuilt and allocating one or more replacement erase blocks, wherein the one or more erase blocks and the one or more replacement erase blocks have differing erase block sizes. The method includes mapping logical addresses, for the one or more erase blocks, to the one or more replacement erase blocks and rebuilding the one or more erase blocks into the one or more replacement erase blocks, in accordance with the mapping.