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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Franco V. Borich, Naperville, IL (US);
Adam M. Gray, Chicago, IL (US);
Scott M. Horan, Clarendon Hills, IL (US);
Ravi V. Khadiwala, Bartlett, IL (US);
Mingyu Li, Chicago, IL (US);
Manish Motwani, Chicago, IL (US);
Jason K. Resch, Chicago, IL (US);
Trevor J. Vossberg, Chicago, IL (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method includes sending, by a computing device of a dispersed storage network (DSN), an inquiry to storage units of the DSN regarding status of a new vault in the DSN. The new vault is a logical storage container supported by the storage units, and the new vault is defined by vault parameters that include new vault identifier, new vault storage capabilities, access privileges, and authorized users. When a threshold number of storage units provide a status response of active and when a data access request for a set of encoded data slices is received, the computing device sends a set of access requests regarding the data access request to the storage units. When the threshold number of storage units do not provide the status response of active, the computing device facilitates activation of the new vault in at least the threshold number of storage units.