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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2020
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Takahiro Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroto Ebara, Tokyo, JP;
Takeru Chiba, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshinori Ohira, Tokyo, JP;
Masakuni Agetsuma, Tokyo, JP;
Mikio Fukuoka, Tokyo, JP;
HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a storage system including a plurality of nodes that provide a storage area and a drive that physically stores data, a parity group is configured with a plurality of data including user data stored in the storage area and redundant data for protecting the user data, a plurality of data in the parity group are stored in a storage area within one predetermined range across a plurality of nodes, and processing for dividing the predetermined range or processing for merging a plurality of predetermined ranges is performed based on a state of the predetermined range.