Method and system for rebuilding data in a distributed RAID...

Details Method and system for rebuilding data in a distributed RAID... Method and system for rebuilding data in a distributed RAID...

Filed on

2009-06-05

Date issued

2011-12-20

Examiner

Gu, Shawn X (Department: 2188)

Patent Class

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

SubClass

Storage accessing and control

SubSubClass

Specific memory composition

Other Related Categories

C711S162000, C711S165000, C711S170000

Type

Reexamination Certificate

Status

active

Patent number

08082393

Description

ABSTRACT:
Embodiments of the systems and methods disclosed provide a distributed RAID system comprising a set of data banks. More particularly, in certain embodiments of a distributed RAID system each data bank has a set of associated storage media and executes a similar distributed RAID application. The distributed RAID applications on each of the data banks coordinate among themselves to distribute and control data flow associated with implementing a level of RAID in conjunction with a volume stored on the associated storage media of the data banks. Migration of volumes, or portions thereof, from one configuration to another configuration may be accomplished according to a priority associated with the volume.

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