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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2012
William C. Galloway, Magnolia, TX (US);
Ryan A. Callison, Magnolia, TX (US);
Greg J. Pellegrino, Tomball, TX (US);
Choon-seng Tan, Houston, TX (US);
George J. Scholhamer, Iii, Tomball, TX (US);
William C. Galloway, Magnolia, TX (US);
Ryan A. Callison, Magnolia, TX (US);
Greg J. Pellegrino, Tomball, TX (US);
Choon-Seng Tan, Houston, TX (US);
George J. Scholhamer, III, Tomball, TX (US);
Pivot3, Inc., Spring, TX (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of systems and methods for a storage system are disclosed. More particularly, in certain embodiments desired locations of storage devices may be zeroed out during operation of the storage system and areas that have been zeroed out allocated to store data when commands pertaining to that data are received. Specifically, in one embodiment a distributed RAID system comprising a set of data banks may be provided where each data bank in the set of data banks may execute a background process which zeroes areas of the storage devices of the data bank. When a command pertaining to a logical location is received a zeroed area of the physical storage devices on the data bank may be allocated to store data associated with that logical location.