Patent ID: 9519545
Filing Date: 2016-12-13
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method performed by a computing device having a processor and memory for remediating a failed storage drive in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) system comprising a set of storage drives and configured for use with a filesystem, comprising: receiving, by the computing device, a signal of an error indicating a specific physical portion on a storage drive in the set of storage drives has caused the storage drive to fail; unmounting, by the computing device, the storage drive from the filesystem while other storage drives in the set of storage drives continue to operate; identifying, by the computing device, one or more files in the filesystem that have associations with the specific physical portion on the storage drive; responsive to identifying the one or more files, remounting, by the computing device, the storage drive onto the filesystem; deleting, by the computing device, the identified one or more files from the filesystem; and performing, by the computing device, a direct I/O write to the specific physical portion on the storage drive to force reallocation of the specific physical portion to a different area on the storage drive.