Patent ID: 9667496
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method of managing a storage network, the method comprising: in response to introduction of a first storage node into a storage network including a plurality of storage nodes, the first storage node discovering at least one second storage node among the plurality of storage nodes that is a peer storage node; in response to discovering the at least one second storage node that is a peer storage node, the first storage node downloading one or more at least a first versions of one or more a first shared soft configurations from the at least one second storage node, wherein each of the one or more shared soft configurations specifies at least one of a set including storage partitioning to be applied by a storage node and an error correction scheme to be applied on storage media of a storage node to data stored by the storage node; in response to selection of a first version of a first shared soft configuration for activation, the first storage node determining whether or not the first storage node already stores a previously employed version of the first shared configuration that matches the first version of the first shared soft configuration downloaded from the second peer storage node; in response to determining the first storage node does not already store a previously employed version of the first shared configuration: in response to determining the first storage node stores a previously employed version of the first shared configuration that does not match the first version of the first shared soft configuration downloaded from the second peer storage node, the first storage node forming and activating a second soft configuration on the first storage node in lieu of the first shared soft configuration.