Awarded Best Student Paper! -- Improving Storage System Availability with D-GRAID

  • Authors:
  • Muthian Sivathanu;Vijayan Prabhakaran;Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau;Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison;University of Wisconsin, Madison;University of Wisconsin, Madison;University of Wisconsin, Madison

  • Venue:
  • FAST '04 Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of D-GRAID, a gracefully-degrading and quickly-recovering RAID storage array. D-GRAID ensures that most files within the file system remain available even when an unexpectedly high number of faults occur. D-GRAID also recovers from failures quickly, restoring only live file system data to a hot spare. Both graceful degradation and live-block recovery are implemented in a prototype SCSI-based storage system underneath unmodified file systems, demonstrating that powerful "file-system like" functionality can be implemented behind a narrow block-based interface.