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Improving Storage System Availability with D-GRAID
Date:
3/31/2004
Authors:
Muthian Sivathanu::University of Wisconsin, Madison
Vijayan Prabhakaran::University of Wisconsin, Madison
Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau::University of Wisconsin, Madison
Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau::University of Wisconsin, Madison
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We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of D-GRAID, a gracefully-degrading and quickly-recovering RAID storage array. D-GRAID ensures that most files within the file system remain available even when an unexpectedly high number of faults occur. D-GRAID also recovers from failures quickly, restoring only live file system data to a hot spare. Both graceful degradation and live-block recovery are implemented in a prototype SCSI-based storage system underneath unmodified file systems, demonstrating that powerful "file-system like" functionality can be implemented behind a narrow block-based interface.
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