FAB: Building distributed enterprise disk arrays from commodity components

11th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ASPLOS XI

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 48-58

  Saito, Yasushi ^a   Frølund, Svend ^a   Veitch, Alistair ^a   Merchant, Arif ^a   Spence, Susan ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Consensus; Disk array; Erasure coding; Replication; Storage; Voting

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS; DISK ARRAY; ERASURE CODING; REPLICATION ALGORITHM; VOTING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); FORMAL LOGIC; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE;

MAGNETIC DISK STORAGE;

EID: 12844259431     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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