US Patent 10592338 Scale out data protection with erasure coding

Scale out data protection with erasure coding is presented herein. Based on an initial number of storage devices determined to have been included in an initial stage of a data storage cluster, an initial protection scheme for the initial stage can determine first coding fragment(s) for data stored within the data storage cluster to facilitate a first recovery, from the initial stage, of the data using the first coding fragment(s). Further, in response to a defined number of additional storage devices being determined to have been added to the data storage cluster to generate a modified data storage cluster, the initial protection scheme can be modified to obtain a modified protection scheme that can determine, for the modified data storage cluster, second coding fragment(s) for the data to facilitate a second recovery of the data using the first coding fragment(s) and the second coding fragment(s).