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Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016

Filed:

Jul. 29, 2013
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Michael J. Palmer, Southampton, GB;

Peter M. Smith, Winchester, GB;

Kelvin Wong, Eastleigh, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 12/0246 (2013.01); G06F 11/1441 (2013.01); G06F 2212/1032 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7202 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7207 (2013.01); G06F 2212/7208 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method for back-up of data to flash memory is provided. Backed up data is organized into one or more stripes, wherein a stripe comprises a set of pages across all available flash memory devices which have a same block and page address. Responsive to encountering an error in a block of flash memory during back-up of a particular stripe of data, the particular stripe of data is rewritten starting at a next available page address and excluding a page of flash memory for the block having the error. Subsequent stripes of data in the block having the error are written to pages excluding the page of flash memory for the block having the error.


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