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Dynamic redistribution of parity groups

  • US 6,862,692 B2
  • Filed: 01/29/2002
  • Issued: 03/01/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2001
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer storage system comprising:

  • a plurality of disk drives for storing parity groups, each parity group comprising storage blocks, said storage blocks comprising one or more data blocks and a parity block associated with said one or more data blocks, each of said storage blocks stored on a separate disk drive such that no two storage blocks from a given parity group reside on the same disk drive;

    a redistribution module to dynamically redistribute parity groups by combining some parity groups to improve storage efficiency; and

    metadata that specifies at least one Gnid-string, wherein said Gnid-string comprises a collection of gnids, wherein each of said gnids comprises information for locating a specified gnode.

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