Patent ID: 7681105

Claim:
A method comprising: providing: a plurality of computer systems forming a distributed computer network, each computer system of the plurality of computer systems having a storage management process operating thereon; wherein the plurality of storage management processes initialize into and operate as a cluster; and a plurality of distributed persistent memories, each persistent memory of the plurality of distributed persistent memories interoperably coupled to at least one of the plurality of computer systems and operative to receive constant updates; and each storage management process of the plurality of storage management processes managing data-set consistency and correctness; wherein the step of managing data-set consistency and correctness comprises: distributing, via an erasure encoding scheme, at least one data set across a plurality of the plurality of distributed persistent memories; wherein each data set of the at least one data set comprises at least one data block and at least one checksum block; wherein each data set of the at least one data set is managed by a single storage management process; erasure decoding each data set of the at least one data set following an unsuccessful read operation; and using a sequencing indicator to determine whether each data block and each checksum block of each data set of the at least one data set is modified completely.