US 11,755,252 B2
Expanding a distributed storage system
Maor Ben Dayan, Tel Aviv (IL); Omri Palmon, Tel Aviv (IL); Liran Zvibel, Tel Aviv (IL); and Kanael Arditti, Tel Aviv (IL)
Assigned to Weka.IO Ltd.
Filed by Weka.IO Ltd, Tel Aviv (IL)
Filed on Oct. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/497,138.
Application 17/497,138 is a continuation of application No. 16/274,600, filed on Feb. 13, 2019, granted, now 11,169,746.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/686,956, filed on Jun. 19, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0027053 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 3/06 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/067 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0614 (2013.01); G06F 3/0644 (2013.01); G06F 3/0683 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a first computing device comprising a first backend; and
a plurality of storage devices, wherein:
the first backend comprises one or more buckets,
the first computing device is operable to split a single bucket, located completely on the first backend of the first computing device, into two buckets,
each bucket of the one or more buckets is operable to build a failure resilient stripe, and
the first computing device is operable to transfer a bucket of the one or more buckets to a second backend on a second computing device.