Managing data storage
Disclosed herein are techniques for use in managing data storage. For example, in one embodiment, the techniques comprise determining a size of the write request. The size of the write request equating to half or more non-parity data portions in a full stripe of data but less than all non-parity data portions in the full stripe. The techniques comprise performing a process based on the size that includes reading a parity and one or more missing non-parity data portions in the full stripe, verifying the coherency of the missing non-parity data portions by comparing a checksum of the parity and a checksum of the missing non-parity data portions, determining a new parity based on the new data and the missing non-parity data portions, and writing, in response to verifying the coherency of the missing non-parity data portions, the new data and the new parity to a RAID group without writing the one or more missing non-parity data portions to the RAID group, wherein the new data and the new parity are written to the RAID group with a checksum.
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving a write request comprising new data to be written to a data storage system, wherein the data storage system comprises a plurality of data storage devices arranged in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) group;
in response to receiving the write request, determining a size of the write request, wherein the size of the write request equates to half or more non-parity data portions in a full stripe of data but less than all of the non-parity data portions in the full stripe of data; and
based on the size of the write request, performing a process, comprising: reading a parity and one or more missing non-parity data portions in the full stripe of data; verifying the coherency of the one or more missing non-parity data portions by comparing a checksum of the parity and a checksum of the one or more missing non-parity data portions; determining a new parity based on the new data and the one or more missing non-parity data portions; and writing, in response to verifying the coherency of the missing non-parity data portions, the new data and the new parity to the RAID group in the data storage system without writing the one or more missing non-parity data portions to the RAID group in the data storage system, wherein the new data and the new parity are written to the RAID group with a checksum.
2. An apparatus, comprising:
memory; and
processing circuitry coupled to the memory, the memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to:
receive a write request comprising new data to be written to a data storage system, wherein the data storage system comprises a plurality of data storage devices arranged in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) group;
in response to receiving the write request, determine a size of the write request, wherein the size of the write request equates to half or more non-parity data portions in a full stripe of data but less than all of the non-parity data portions in the full stripe of data; and
based on the size of the write request, perform a process, comprising: reading a parity and one or more missing non-parity data portions in the full stripe of data; verifying the coherency of the one or more missing non-parity data portions by comparing a checksum of the parity and a checksum of the one or more missing non-parity data portions; determining a new parity based on the new data and the one or more missing non-parity data portions; and writing, in response to verifying the coherency of the missing non-parity data portions, the new data and the new parity to the RAID group in the data storage system without writing the one or more missing non-parity data portions to the RAID group in the data storage system, wherein the new data and the new parity are written to the RAID group with a checksum.
3. A computer program product having a non-transitory computer readable medium which stores a set of instructions, the set of instructions, when carried out by processing circuitry, causing the processing circuitry to perform a method of:
receiving a write request comprising new data to be written to a data storage system, wherein the data storage system comprises a plurality of data storage devices arranged in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) group;
in response to receiving the write request, determining a size of the write request, wherein the size of the write request equates to half or more non-parity data portions in a full stripe of data but less than all of the non-parity data portions in the full stripe of data; and
based on the size of the write request, performing a process, comprising: reading a parity and one or more missing non-parity data portions in the full stripe of data; verifying the coherency of the one or more missing non-parity data portions by comparing a checksum of the parity and a checksum of the one or more missing non-parity data portions; determining a new parity based on the new data and the one or more missing non-parity data portions; and writing, in response to verifying the coherency of the missing non-parity data portions, the new data and the new parity to the RAID group in the data storage system without writing the one or more missing non-parity data portions to the RAID group in the data storage system, wherein the new data and the new parity are written to the RAID group with a checksum.