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Patent No.:

US 12026055 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 01, 2020

Storage device with fault resilient read-only mode

Applicant:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;

Inventors:

Yang Seok Ki, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Dong Gi Daniel Lee, Saratoga, CA (US);

Sung Wook Ryu, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Ehsan Najafabadi, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Yongin-si, KR;

Attorney:

Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP

Primary Examiner:

Jigar P Patel

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/14 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/07 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 11/32 (2006.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01); G06F 12/0882 (2016.01); G06F 12/1009 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1428 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0634 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0649 (2013.01); G06F 3/065 (2013.01); G06F 3/0673 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01); G06F 11/0772 (2013.01); G06F 11/1068 (2013.01); G06F 11/1076 (2013.01); G06F 11/1484 (2013.01); G06F 11/203 (2013.01); G06F 11/2089 (2013.01); G06F 11/2094 (2013.01); G06F 11/3034 (2013.01); G06F 11/3037 (2013.01); G06F 11/3072 (2013.01); G06F 11/327 (2013.01); G06F 11/3409 (2013.01); G06F 12/0882 (2013.01); G06F 12/1009 (2013.01); G06F 2201/85 (2013.01); G06F 2212/262 (2013.01);
Abstract

A storage device, and a method for operating a storage device. In some embodiments, the storage device includes storage media, and the method includes: determining, by the storage device, that the storage device is in a fault state from which partial recovery is possible by operating the storage device in a first read-only mode; and operating the storage device in the first read-only mode, the operating in the first read-only mode including: determining that the age of a first data item stored in a page of the storage device has exceeded a threshold age, and copying the first data item into a rescue space in the storage device.

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