DISK DATA MANAGEMENT

• US 20160110246A1
• Filed: 10/14/2015
• Published: 04/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Emc IP Holding Company LLC (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Original Assignee: EMC Corporation (Dell Technologies Inc.)
• Inventors: Lv, Man, Zou, Colin Yong, Liu, Chris Zirui, Liu, Xuan, Wu, James Fei
• Application Number:
  US14/883,112
• Publication Number:
  US 20160110246A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/073 in a memory management context, e.g. virtual memory or cache management memory management G06F12/00; testing of static memory units G11C29/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0751 Error or fault detection not based on redundancy power supply failures G06F1/30; network fault management H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/0793 Remedial or corrective actions recovery from an exception in an instruction pipeline G06F9/3861; by retry G06F11/1402; for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity H04L69/40

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a computer program product and apparatus for disk data management, that includes comprises obtaining BMS data from a disk, determining a bad sector in the disk based on the BMS data, and recovering data stored in the determined bad sector.

Claims

1. A method for disk data management, comprising:

obtaining background medium scan (BMS) data from a disk;

determining a bad sector in the disk based on the BMS data; and

recovering data stored in the determined bad sector.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the BMS data is recorded according to execution of BMS by the disk.

3. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

configuring, before the disk executes the BMS, a parameter for the BMS, wherein the parameter includes at least one of minimum idle time before the execution of the BMS by the disk and a BMS interval time.

4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the BMS data includes a BMS status information and BMS result entries, and wherein determining a bad sector in the disk based on the BMS data further comprises:

determining a time duration of a last execution of the BMS based on the BMS status information;

identifying, based on the time duration of the last execution of the BMS, BMS result entries recorded according to the last execution of the BMS from the BMS result entries; and

determining the bad sector in the disk based on the identified BMS result entries.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein each of the BMS result entries includes at least one from the group consisting of:

an error type, time of error occurrence, a position, and a recovery status of a sector, wherein the error type including at least a recovered error and a medium error; and

wherein determining the bad sector in the disk based on the identified BMS result entries further comprises;

determining a first result entry from the identified BMS result entries, the first result entry including an error type indicating a medium error and a recovery status indicating that the sector is not corrected; and

determining the bad sector in the disk based on a position included in the first result entry.

6. The method according to claim 4, further comprising:

querying for the BMS status information from the disk, before obtaining the BMS data, to determine whether the execution of the BMS is completed on the disk.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein recovering data stored in the bad sector comprises:

recovering the data stored in the bad sector determined and relocating the bad sector determined to another available sector of the disk based on redundant array of independent disks (RAID) redundancy.

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising:

generating an indication related to a health condition of the disk based on the BMS result entries according to at least one execution of the BMS.

9. A system, comprising:

a data storage system including a disk; and

computer-executable logic operating in memory, wherein the computer-executable program logic is configured to manage disk data, wherein the computer-executable program logic is configured for the execution of;

obtaining background medium scan (BMS) data from a disk;

determining a bad sector in the disk based on the BMS data; and

recovering data stored in the determined bad sector.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the BMS data is recorded according to execution of BMS by the disk.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the computer-executable program logic is further configured for the execution of:

configuring, before the disk executes the BMS, a parameter for the BMS, wherein the parameter includes at least one of minimum idle time before the execution of the BMS by the disk and a BMS interval time.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the BMS data includes a BMS status information and BMS result entries, and wherein determining a bad sector in the disk based on the BMS data further comprises:

determining a time duration of a last execution of the BMS based on the BMS status information;

identifying, based on the time duration of the last execution of the BMS, BMS result entries recorded according to the last execution of the BMS from the BMS result entries; and

determining the bad sector in the disk based on the identified BMS result entries.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein each of the BMS result entries includes at least one from the group consisting of:

an error type, time of error occurrence, a position, and a recovery status of a sector, wherein the error type including at least a recovered error and a medium error; and

wherein determining the bad sector in the disk based on the identified BMS result entries further comprises;

determining a first result entry from the identified BMS result entries, the first result entry including an error type indicating a medium error and a recovery status indicating that the sector is not corrected; and

determining the bad sector in the disk based on a position included in the first result entry.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the computer-executable program logic is further configured for the execution of:

querying for the BMS status information from the disk, before obtaining the BMS data, to determine whether the execution of the BMS is completed on the disk.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein recovering data stored in the bad sector comprises:

recovering the data stored in the bad sector determined and relocating the bad sector determined to another available sector of the disk based on redundant array of independent disks (RAID) redundancy.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the computer-executable program logic is further configured for the execution of:

generating an indication related to a health condition of the disk based on the BMS result entries according to at least one execution of the BMS.

17. A computer program product for managing disk data, the computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with computer executable program code, wherein the code enables execution across one or more processors;

obtaining background medium scan (BMS) data from a disk, wherein the BMS data is recorded according to execution of BMS by the disk;

wherein the BMS data includes a BMS status information and BMS result entries, and wherein determining a bad sector in the disk based on the BMS data further comprises;

determining a time duration of a last execution of the BMS based on the BMS status information;

identifying, based on the time duration of the last execution of the BMS, BMS result entries recorded according to the last execution of the BMS from the BMS result entries; and

determining the bad sector in the disk based on the identified BMS result entries;

determining a bad sector in the disk based on the BMS data;

recovering data stored in the determined bad sector; and

recovering the data stored in the bad sector determined and relocating the bad sector determined to another available sector of the disk based on redundant array of independent disks (RAID) redundancy.

18. The computer program product according to claim 17, wherein the code further enables execution of:

configuring, before the disk executes the BMS, a parameter for the BMS, wherein the parameter includes at least one of minimum idle time before the execution of the BMS by the disk and a BMS interval time; and

querying for the BMS status information from the disk, before obtaining the BMS data, to determine whether the execution of the BMS is completed on the disk.

19. The computer program product according to claim 17, wherein each of the BMS result entries includes at least one from the group consisting of:

an error type, time of error occurrence, a position, and a recovery status of a sector, wherein the error type including at least a recovered error and a medium error; and

wherein determining the bad sector in the disk based on the identified BMS result entries further comprises;

determining a first result entry from the identified BMS result entries, the first result entry including an error type indicating a medium error and a recovery status indicating that the sector is not corrected; and

determining the bad sector in the disk based on a position included in the first result entry.

20. The computer program product according to claim 17, wherein the code further enables execution of:

generating an indication related to a health condition of the disk based on the BMS result entries according to at least one execution of the BMS.