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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2018
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Charles Ma, Beijing, CN;
Jian Gao, Beijing, CN;
Xinlei Xu, Beijing, CN;
Qingyun Liu, Beijing, CN;
Hongpo Gao, Beijing, CN;
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, apparatus and computer readable medium for managing a plurality of disks. The method includes in response to receiving a write request for a first stripe of a redundant array of independent disks (RAID), searching for extents mapped to the first stripe. The RAID is created on a plurality of extents obtained by dividing a plurality of disks. The method further includes, in response to the extents mapped to the first stripe being missed, selecting a first set of extents in a free state from the plurality of extents of the plurality of disks. The method further includes mapping the first stripe to the first set of extents.