Management of a secure delete operation in a parity-based system

A system for managing a secure delete operation within storage devices using a parity-based storage scheme, comprising:

• one or more storage devices using a parity-based storage scheme;
• at least one processor;
• at least one memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory comprises instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to:
• receive a location of an application block, the application block includes one or more data blocks and one or more parity blocks stored within the one or more storage devices using the parity-based storage scheme;
• determine a number of parity blocks to delete, wherein the number of parity blocks to delete is less than a total number of parity blocks;
• determine that there is at least one parity block to delete;
• determine a weight, for each of the one or more storage devices that have a determined parity block, based on a usage and a health of a storage device from the one or more storage devices;
• rank each of the storage devices storing a parity block as a function of the weight;
• perform a secure delete operation on the determined number of parity blocks as a function of the rank of the storage device on which respective parity blocks are stored;
• perform the secure delete operation on the determined number of parity blocks;
• and
• perform the secure delete operation on the one or more data blocks.

A computer program product for managing a secure delete operation within storage devices using a parity-based storage scheme, the computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having program code embodied therewith, the program code comprising computer readable program code configured to:

• receive a location of an application block, the application block includes one or more data blocks and one or more parity blocks stored within the one or more storage devices using the parity-based storage scheme;
• determine a number of parity blocks to delete, wherein the number of parity blocks to delete is less than a total number of parity blocks;
• determine that there is at least one parity block to delete;
• determine a weight, for each of the one or more storage devices that have a determined parity block, based on a usage and a health of a storage device from the one or more storage devices;
• rank each of the storage devices storing a parity block as a function of the weight;
• perform the secure delete operation on the determined number of parity blocks as a function of the rank of the storage device on which respective parity blocks are stored;
• perform the secure delete operation on the determined number of parity blocks;
• and
• perform the secure delete operation on the one or more data blocks.