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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.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016

Filed:

Jun. 05, 2015
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

David D. Chambliss, Morgan Hill, CA (US);

Ehood Garmiza, Neve Ziv, IL;

Eyal Lotem, Omer, IL;

Leah Shalev, Zichron-Yaakov, IL;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1096 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0638 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 11/1076 (2013.01); G06F 2211/1009 (2013.01); G06F 2211/1028 (2013.01); G06F 2211/1057 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatus and computer program products implement embodiments of the present invention that enable digital information devices having respective storage devices and memories to distributedly store, for a logical volume, data and first and second parity values across corresponding regions of the storage devices. Freezers having a one-to-one correspondence with the storage devices are distributedly stored in the memories. Upon detecting, in a cache, updated data for one or more first regions on the storage devices, existing data from the one or more first regions, and additional data for parity calculations are retrieved from one or more corresponding second regions on the storage devices, and first and the second parity values are calculated using the updated data, the existing data and the additional data, and the updated data and the calculated first and second parity values are stored to the freezers.


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