Slow responses in redundant arrays of inexpensive disks
CA 2365694 A1 · Owner: Mann, Bruce E. · Inventors: Trasatti, Philip J.; Mann, Bruce E.; Ywoskus, John A.
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A redundant array includes a plurality of disks a bus coupling the disks, a , receiving device and a device to reconstruct a block stored in one of the disks. The device reconstructs the block with associated data parity blocks from other disks. The device transmits the reconstructed block to the receiving device (110) in response to the one of the disks being slowly responding (106). A method includes requesting a first disk to transmit a first block (104), reconstructing, when necessary the first block from , associated data stored in other disks of a RAID configuration and , transmitting the reconstructed block directly to a receiving device. The transmitting is in response to the …
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