Are disks the dominant contributor for storage failures? A comprehensive study of storage subsystem failure characteristics

FAST 2008 - 6th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 111-125

  Jiang, Weihang ^a   Hu, Chongfeng ^a   Zhou, Yuanyuan ^a   Kanevsky, Arkady ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Network Appliance Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

FAILURE CHARACTERISTICS; FAILURE TYPES; PROTOCOL STACK; REDUNDANT INTERCONNECTS; SELF CORRELATION; STORAGE COMPONENT; STORAGE SUBSYSTEMS; STORAGE SYSTEMS;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

EID: 85090975850     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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