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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2001
David Alan Burton, Vail, AZ (US);
Robert Louis Morton, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gary William Steffens, Tucson, AZ (US);
Bryan John Wright, Tucson, AZ (US);
David Alan Burton, Vail, AZ (US);
Robert Louis Morton, Tucson, AZ (US);
Gary William Steffens, Tucson, AZ (US);
Bryan John Wright, Tucson, AZ (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Provided is a method, system, and program for determining a configuration of a logical array including a plurality of storage devices. A selection of a number of storage devices is received to include in the logical array. A determination is made of a number of groups in which to include the selected number of storage devices, wherein each group includes at least one storage device maintaining user data and parity data for the user data in the group. Determining an assignment of the selected number of storage devices to the determined number of groups and allocating the storage devices to the determined number of groups according to the determined assignment.