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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2008
Applicant:
James Taylor, Livermore, CA (US);
Inventor:
James Taylor, Livermore, CA (US);
Assignee:
NetApp, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide techniques for distributing the reconstruction process of a failed storage device in an array of storage devices to storage systems in a storage system cluster (cluster). The inventive technique includes a storage system securing the array, decomposing the reconstruction process into a number of tasks, distributing each task to other storage system in the cluster, and reconstructing data using results of the tasks performed by the other storage systems.
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