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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:
Mar. 07, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 22, 2015
Applicant:

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park, SG;

Inventors:

Timothy J. Louie, Apex, NC (US);

Ernest N. Mandese, Durham, NC (US);

Joaquin F. Pacheco, Cary, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/20 (2006.01); G06F 11/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/2094 (2013.01); G06F 3/0619 (2013.01); G06F 3/0647 (2013.01); G06F 3/0689 (2013.01); G06F 11/1662 (2013.01); G06F 11/1666 (2013.01); G06F 2201/85 (2013.01);
Abstract

When a media error occurs on a storage device of a number of storage devices of a redundant array, the logical stripe of data affected by the media error is determined. A portion of non-volatile memory is reserved and the logical stripe is backed up to this portion of non-volatile memory. A read request is subsequently serviced from the non-volatile memory and not from the storage devices. When a write request is received, it is first serviced to the storage devices. If successful, then the previously reserved portion of non-volatile memory is freed up, and subsequent requests are serviced using the storage devices. If unsuccessful, then the write request is serviced using the non-volatile memory.


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