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QuoteRef: browD9_2007




Topic:
error safe systems
Topic:
file system reliability
Group:
file system
Topic:
examples of file systems
Topic:
consistency testing

Reference

Brown, D., "A conversation with Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore", ACM Queue, September/October 2007, pp. 13-19. Google

Quotations
14 ;;Quote: never trust the hardware; compute a checksum with the data; store them separately on disk; recover data if they do not agree
14 ;;Quote: treat file storage like memory; plug in disks as needed; allocate and release space from a storage pool
14 ;;Quote: error rates have remained constant while capacity and bandwidth have increased tremendously
14+;;Quote: disks have one uncorrectable error every 10 to 20 terabytes
15 ;;Quote: ZFS provides a transactional store of objects with 2^64 sets of 2^64 objects, each 2^64 bytes; not designed for 32-bit architectures
14 ;;Quote: prevent needing to rebuild a file system; ZFS has not needed FSCK in two years of deployment

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Topic: error safe systems (76 items)
Topic: file system reliability (26 items)
Group: file system   (9 topics, 305 quotes)
Topic: examples of file systems (44 items)
Topic: consistency testing (60 items)

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