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Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 19, 2022
Applicant:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kenichi Betsuno, Tokyo, JP;

Akira Yamamoto, Tokyo, JP;

Takashi Nagao, Tokyo, JP;

Kazuki Matsugami, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0616 (2013.01); G06F 3/0631 (2013.01); G06F 11/10 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01); G06F 12/0253 (2013.01);
Abstract

A storage device manages data stored in a storage drive in a plurality of logical hierarchies. The plurality of logical hierarchies include a writing hierarchy above a hierarchy of a parity group including a plurality of storage drives. The storage device writes received host data in a free area in the writing hierarchy. In the data recovery process for replacing a failure storage drive with a new storage drive, the storage device executes the garbage collection process on a first logical area in the writing hierarchy associated with the first parity group including the failure storage drive. In the garbage collection process, valid data is selected from the first logical area and copied to a second logical area associated with a second parity group different from the first parity group.


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