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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2024
Dell Products L.p., Hopkinton, MA (US);
Kuolin Hua, Natick, MA (US);
Kunxiu Gao, Boxborough, MA (US);
Dell Products L.P., Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A minimal cluster of G+1 disks with G same-size cells has protection group members distributed in accordance with a deterministic algorithm such that the cell at disk X, cell Y is assigned to group (X+Y−1) modulo M, where M is group size (G) plus 1 and one of the groups is reserved as spare capacity for recovering from drive failure. The cluster can be granularly expanded and eventually split into a non-flex cluster and a flex cluster that begins with the member distribution pattern of the deterministic algorithm. Relocations of members during expansion and split are achieved in part by submatrix transposition and reordering of disks.
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