Inspur Suzhou Intelligent Technology Assigned Patent

Inspur Suzhou Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., Jiangsu, China, has been assigned a patent (11650880) developed by Shi, Peiren, Jiangsu, China, for “write hole protection method and system for RAID, and storage medium.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A write hole protection method and system for a RAID, and a storage medium. The method comprises: presetting a log area, and after a RAID is degraded, setting the log area to be in an enabled state, when the log area is in the enabled state, determining, before each stripe write operation, whether a data block of a failed member disk of the RAID in a stripe is a check data block, if the data block is not the check data block, determining whether data blocks to be written of the stripe comprise a data block to be written into the failed member disk, if yes, backing up the data block to be written into the failed member disk in the log area, if not, calculating the data block of the failed member disk and backing up the data block in the log area, or backing up the data blocks to be written in the log area, and when the degraded RAID is started after a failure, performing data recovery using the log area. By using the present solution, the write hole issue of the RAID is avoided.”

The patent application was filed on 2019-11-27 (17/642643).