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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2010
Kiran Madnani, Framingham, MA (US);
Randall H. Shain, Wrentham, MA (US);
David W. Desroches, Methuen, MA (US);
Kiran Madnani, Framingham, MA (US);
Randall H. Shain, Wrentham, MA (US);
David W. DesRoches, Methuen, MA (US);
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Abstract
A system, computer program product, and computer-implemented method for defining a data stripe that spans one or more of N data storage devices and one or more of M erasure code devices. The one or more N data storage devices and the one or more M erasure code devices are included within a data storage system. A data chunk to be written to the data storage system is received. At least a portion of the data chunk is written to the portion of the data stripe that spans the one or more N data storage devices. Each of the N data storage devices and the M erasure code devices is included within a unique server computer.