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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2020
Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Andy Ling Wu, Shanghai, CN;
Roland Fei Sun, Shanghai, CN;
EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
Provided herein is a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for managing a storage system. A method can comprise, in response to determining that a first storage unit of a storage system is faulty, writing, by a system comprising a processor, a data block stored in the first storage unit into a hidden file of the storage system. The hidden file can be distributed across at least a second storage unit and a third storage unit of the storage system, wherein the second storage unit and the third storage unit are different from the first storage unit. Writing the data block can comprise creating the hidden file in the storage system, and creating an index information item corresponding to the data block for the hidden file, which index information item indicates a physical address of the data block.