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Subject: Disk reliability
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I'm interesting in finding any references to disk reliability
techniques, specifically disk striping and disk arrays of magnetic
disks.  Is there an overview paper available, or at least some
technique-specific ones?  Mail to me and I'll summarize (if there is
interest).  Thanks.

					      --Peter

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[ Here's a few on RAID, many others exist.  The first of these has appeared ]
[ in ASPLOS, but I don't have exact reference handy.  --DL                  ]

@TECHREPORT(tr:coding-techniques,
        AUTHOR          = "Garth Gibson and Lisa Hellerstein and Richard M.
                        Karp and Randy H. Katz and David A. Patterson",
        TITLE           = "Coding Techniques for Handling Failures in Large
                        Disk Arrays",
        NUMBER          = "UCB/CSD 88/477",
        MONTH           = dec,
        YEAR            = 1988,
        INSTITUTION     = UCB
)

@TECHREPORT(tr:case-for-raid,
        AUTHOR          = "David A. Patterson and Garth Gibson and Randy H.
                        Katz",
        TITLE           = "A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
                        ({RAID})",
        NUMBER          = "UCB/CSD 87/391",
        MONTH           = dec,
        YEAR            = 1987,
        INSTITUTION     = UCB
)

@INPROCEEDINGS(sigmod:raid,
        AUTHOR          = "D. Patterson and G. Gibson and R. Katz",
        TITLE           = "A Case for Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks
                        ({RAID})",
        BOOKTITLE       = "Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Conference",
        ORGANIZATION    = ACM,
        PAGES           = "109-116",
        ADDRESS         = "Chicago",
        MONTH           = jun,
        YEAR            = 1988
)