Rebuilding Encoded Data Slices for a Failed Storage Unit

A non-transitory computer readable storage device comprises:

• at least one memory section for storing operational instructions that, when executed by one or more computing devices of a storage network, cause the one or more computing devices to:
• determine one or more storage units have failed, wherein the one or more storage units are part of a set of storage units of the storage network, and wherein the set of storage units stores sets of encoded data slices;
• determine to rebuild one or more encoded data slices of the sets of encoded data slices stored in the one or more storage units;
• identify a subset of storage units of the set of storage units to support the rebuilding the one or more encoded data slices;
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• assign a portion of the rebuilding to each storage unit of the subset of storage units.