International Business Machines Corporation
Thin provisioning of raid storage

Abstract:

The various embodiments relate to a storage system, storage system method and computer program product including: providing a distributed collection of drives, each drive having logical blocks, each logical block being assignable to a segment with an associated volume and being configurable to RAID characteristics associated with that volume; assigning a first group of logical blocks to a segment with an associated volume and configuring the first group of logical blocks to RAID characteristics associated with that volume; and wherein a further group of logical blocks is ready to be assigned to any segment but is not yet assigned.