Improving disk array reliability through expedited scrubbing

Proceedings - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage, NAS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 119-125

  P̂ris, Jehan François ^a   Schwarz, S J Thomas ^b   Amer, Ahmed ^c   Long, Darrell D E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL URUGUAY   (Uruguay)

^c Department of Computer Science and Engineering   (United States)

^d University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Disk scrubbing; Irrecoverable read errors; RAID arrays

Indexed keywords

BUILT-IN REDUNDANCY; DATA LOSS; DISK ARRAY; DISK FAILURE; DISK SCRUBBING; IRRECOVERABLE READ ERRORS; LOST BLOCK; RAID ARRAYS;

DISKS (MACHINE COMPONENTS); ERRORS;

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 77958134316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NAS.2010.37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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