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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2013
Applicant:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
FUTUREWEI TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1092 (2013.01); G06F 11/1084 (2013.01); G06F 2211/1028 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment method for data repair in a storage system includes determining, by a processor, a minimum number of missing data blocks needed to repair a corrupted object in a first portion of the storage system, wherein the missing data blocks are not available in the first portion of the storage system, retrieving only the minimum number of missing data blocks needed to repair the corrupted object from a second portion of the storage system, and repairing the corrupted object in the first portion of the storage system using erasure codes and the retrieved minimum number of missing data blocks.
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