Patent ID: 11899621
Assignee: WEKA.IO LTD.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A method comprising:
using a computing device on a network interface card for:
generating a plurality of stripes, wherein each stripe of the plurality of stripes spans a different set of storage devices of a plurality of storage devices;
running a garbage collection process on a first storage device, and wherein at least a portion of the first storage device is not available during the garbage collection process;
receiving a request to access the first storage device; and
redirecting the access request to a second storage device according to an availability of the first storage device, wherein a particular stripe comprises a first block, of the first storage device, and a second block, of the second storage device, and wherein a redirected read access request reconstructs the first block according to the second block.