A case for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID)
SIGMOD '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
The design and implementation of a log-structured file system
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Parity logging overcoming the small write problem in redundant disk arrays
ISCA '93 Proceedings of the 20th annual international symposium on computer architecture
Modeling and Dimensioning Hierarchical Storage Systems for Low-Delay Video Services
IEEE Transactions on Computers
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Increased computer networking has sparked a resurgence of the "on-line" revolution of the 1970's, making ever larger amounts of data available on a world wide basis and placing greater demands on the performance and availability of tertiary storage systems. In this paper, we argue for a new approach to tertiary storage system architecture that is obtained by coupling multiple small and inexpensive "building block" libraries (or jukeboxes) together to create larger tertiary storage systems. We call the resulting system a RAIL (Redundant Arrays of Independent Libraries) and show that it has performance and availability characteristics superior to conventional tertiary storage systems, for almost the same dollar/megabyte cost.