Patent ID: 6871295
Filing Date: 2005-03-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer storage system, comprising: a plurality of disk drives for storing parity groups, each parity group comprising storage blocks, said storage blocks comprising one or more data blocks and a parity block associated with said one or more data blocks, each of said storage blocks stored on a separate disk drive such that no two storage blocks from a given parity group reside on the same disk drive; and a recovery module to dynamically recover data lost when at least a portion of one disk drive in said plurality of disk drives becomes unavailable, said recovery module configured to produce a reconstructed block by using information in the remaining storage blocks of a parity group corresponding to an unavailable storage block, said recovery module further configured to split said parity group corresponding to an unavailable storage block into two parity groups if said parity group corresponding to said unavailable storage block spanned all of the drives in said plurality of disk drives.