Title
In search of I/O-optimal recovery from disk failures
Abstract
We address the problem of minimizing the I/O needed to recover from disk failures in erasure-coded storage systems. The principal result is an algorithm that finds the optimal I/O recovery from an arbitrary number of disk failures for any XOR-based erasure code. We also describe a family of codes with high-fault tolerance and low recovery I/O, e.g. one instance tolerates up to 11 failures and recovers a lost block in 4 I/Os. While we have determined I/O optimal recovery for any given code, it remains an open problem to identify codes with the best recovery properties. We describe our ongoing efforts toward characterizing space overhead versus recovery I/O tradeoffs and generating codes that realize these bounds.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2011
HotStorage
o-optimal recovery,erasure-coded storage system,best recovery property,o optimal recovery,open problem,arbitrary number,o tradeoffs,low recovery,o recovery,xor-based erasure code,disk failure
Field
DocType
Citations 
Open problem,Computer science,Parallel computing,Input/output,Erasure code,Distributed computing
Conference
27
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.08
16
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Osama Khan149419.97
Randal Burns21955115.15
James Park3272.08
Cheng Huang472043.59