发明名称 |
Apparatus and method for storing data with selectable data protection using mirroring and selectable parity inhibition |
摘要 |
A protection mechanism for use in a mass storage system for providing user selectable levels of protection against data loss wherein storage segments of a plurality of disk drives are organized into at least two functionally separate logical units and a memory management mechanism is responsive to an identification of a logical unit as selected for mirroring by writing a first copy of a data block assigned to a first storage address in a designated logical unit into the assigned storage address in the designated logical unit and writing a second copy of the data block into a second storage address in the disk drives wherein the second storage address is skewed with respect to the first storage address so that the second storage address is located in a disk drive separate from the data disk drive containing the first storage address, and writing at least one parity block containing parity information relating to the data block into a disk drive. The mechanism allows a user to select to write data blocks to the disk drives without corresponding parity information being stored in the disk drives, and to later enter the parity information. |
申请公布号 |
US5893919(A) |
申请公布日期 |
1999.04.13 |
申请号 |
US19960721090 |
申请日期 |
1996.09.27 |
申请人 |
STORAGE COMPUTER CORPORATION |
发明人 |
SARKOZY, ANDRAS;O'BRIEN, JOHN;FLYNN, GREGORY |
分类号 |
G06F11/10;G06F11/20;(IPC1-7):G11B17/22 |
主分类号 |
G06F11/10 |
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