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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2023
Pure Storage, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Thomas D. Cocagne, Elk Grove Village, IL (US);
Asimuddin Kazi, Naperville, IL (US);
Jason K. Resch, Warwick, RI (US);
Pure Storage, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for maintaining availability of critical information in a storage network that includes a plurality of storage units. In an embodiment, a processing module(s) of the storage network identifies critical information stored in one or more memory devices of a computing device. Critical information can include, for example, information required for operation of one or more storage units to perform data access operations. The processing module obtains the critical information from the one or more memory devices, and dispersed storage error encodes the critical information to produce one or more sets of encoded critical slices. The processing module further selects a set of storage units of the storage network and facilitates storage of the one or more sets of encoded critical slices in the selected set of storage units.