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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2015
Applicant:
Emc Corporation, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Edward S. Robins, Winchester, MA (US);
Evgeny Malkevich, Newton, MA (US);
Assignee:
EMC IP Holding Company LLC, Hopkinton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/10 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/1088 (2013.01); G06F 11/1076 (2013.01); G06F 17/3053 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments are directed to techniques for techniques for selecting a proper set of spare sections to use in a given failure scenario. These embodiments use a set of rules to define which spare sections are eligible to serve as spares for reconstruction of the RAID members on a disk that had failed. In addition, the set of rules may include weighted rules to allow optimization in the spare selection process.