Techniques for spare storage pool management

摘要

Techniques for spare storage pool management are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for spare storage pool management comprising receiving spare storage configuration information for a storage drive pool comprising a plurality of storage drives, maintaining spare storage mapping information to spare storage within the storage drive pool based at least in part on the spare storage configuration information, monitoring spare storage within the storage drive pool for detecting block failures within the storage drive pool, detecting a failure of a block in a first storage drive of the plurality of storage drives, and updating the spare storage mapping information associated with the failed block in the first storage drive to map to a spare block in a second storage drive of the plurality of storage drives.

主权项

1. A method for spare storage pool management comprising:
receiving spare storage configuration information for a storage drive pool comprising a plurality of storage drives; maintaining spare storage mapping information to spare storage within the storage drive pool based at least in part on the spare storage configuration information; monitoring spare storage within the storage drive pool for detecting block failures within the storage drive pool; detecting a failure of a block in a first storage drive of the plurality of storage drives; and updating the spare storage mapping information associated with the failed block in the first storage drive to map to a spare block in a second storage drive of the plurality of storage drives, wherein the updating further comprises determining that mapping to the spare block of the second storage drive provides a higher fault tolerance for the storage drive pool than a mapping to a second spare block of the first storage drive.