Towards availability benchmarks: A case study of software RAID systems

2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages

  Brown, Aaron ^a   Patterson, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; NONVOLATILE STORAGE; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM;

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY; FAILURE CONDITIONS; GENERAL METHODOLOGIES; GRAPHICAL PRESENTATIONS; HIGH-END SYSTEMS; TRANSIENT ERRORS; WINDOWS 2000 SERVER; WORKLOAD GENERATION;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 85084161959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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