FAB: Building distributed enterprise disk arrays from commodity components

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 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

DISK ARRAYS; DISTRIBUTED ENTERPRISE DISK ARRAYS; ERASURE CODING; REPLICATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); OPTICAL DISK STORAGE; PRODUCT DESIGN;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33845446245     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1037949.1024400     Document Type: Conference Paper

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