Patent ID: 9009575
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for execution by a processing module of a computing device, the method comprises: identifying a set of encoded data slices that have been created by encoding a data segment in accordance with a dispersed storage error encoding function having a decode threshold equal to or less than half of a number encoded data slices in the set of encoded data slices; identifying a first sub-set of encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices having a non-current revision level; identifying a second sub-set of encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices having a more-current revision level; and when a number of encoded data slices of the second sub-set of encoded data slices is greater than or equal to the decode threshold and when a number of encoded data slices of the first sub-set of encoded data slices is less than the decode threshold, facilitating rebuilding of the first sub-set of encoded data slices using at least a decode threshold number of encoded data slices of the second sub-set of encoded slices.