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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2021

Filed:

Oct. 10, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Bo Zou, Shanghai, CN;

Yang Liu, Shanghai, CN;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/2094 (2013.01); G06F 3/0617 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); G06F 2201/805 (2013.01); G06F 2201/82 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system and computer program product for maintaining a storage array online. According to the method, an unrecoverable error is detected by one or more processors as having occurred in a failed disk of a storage array in first storage. The failed disk is replaced with a spare disk in the first storage. Data is retrieved from a second storage for storing into a stripe of the first storage based on address information of a data block of the failed disk. The second storage stores mirrored data of data stored in the first storage. The stripe includes data blocks distributed across all disks in the storage array of the first storage. The retrieved data is caused to be written into the stripe of the storage array of the first storage. In other embodiments, a system and a computer program product are disclosed.


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