Title
RAID-6Plus: A Fast and Reliable Coding Scheme Aided by Multi-failure Degradation.
Abstract
Existing triple-failure-tolerant codes assume that failures are independent and instantaneous. Such assumptions overlook the underlying mechanism of multi-failure occurrences and ignored the effect of reconstruction window. These codes are not adapted to the occurrence pattern of failure in real-world applications. As a result, the third parity drive is almost idle as it set to handle the triple-failure scenario only with lower-level failure situations unattended. Furthermore, the problem of single failure rebuild deteriorates with the increasing disk capacity, and the system's reliability will decrease with user experience impaired. Aiming at these problems, a fast reconstructable coding scheme extended from RAID-6 has been developed in this study. RAID-6Plus maintains a smaller reconstruction window by recoding the third parity drive. Existing codes provide absolute reliability for triple failures via full combinations. As a contrast, RAID-6Plus employs short combinations which are able to greatly reuse overlapped elements during reconstruction to remake the third parity drive. The short combinations shorten the reconstruction window of single failure, which avoids multi-failure overlapping in the reconstruction window. The capability of multi-failure degradation provides RAID-6Plus with 1 a better system performance comparing to RTP and STAR and 2 an enhanced reliability comparing to RAID-6.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-26979-5_15
APSCC
Keywords
Field
DocType
Reconstruction window,Failure mode,Multi-failure degradation,Flexible reliability
Failure mode and effects analysis,Monad (category theory),User experience design,Reuse,Computer science,Coding (social sciences),Real-time computing,Degradation (geology),RAID,Computer engineering,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9464
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
16
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ming-Zhu Deng183.20
Yang Ou272.62
Nong Xiao3649116.15
Songping Yu484.89
Wei Chen 0009500.34
Zhiguang Chen67918.83
Fang Liu71188125.46