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Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 03, 2019
Applicant:

Emc Ip Holding Company Llc, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Inventors:

Jian Gao, Beijing, CN;

Hongpo Gao, Beijing, CN;

Lei Sun, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/2094 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0659 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 11/1088 (2013.01); G06F 11/1092 (2013.01); G06F 2201/82 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques involve: detecting whether a first set of disks include an inaccessible disk, respective disk sections in the first set of disks forming a first set of stripes; in response to detecting the first set of disks including the inaccessible disk, determining faulty stripes in the first set of stripes, the faulty stripes including a first number of inaccessible disk sections; and in response to the first number exceeding a second number of free sections of the first set of disks, moving data in at least one stripe in the first set of stripes to free sections of the second set of disks to release sections of the at least one stripe, respective disk sections in the second set of disks forming a second set of stripes, each stripe in the first set of stripes and the second set of stripes having the same number of sections.


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