An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack

An important threat to reliable storage of data is silent data corruption. In order to develop suitable protection mechanisms against data corruption, it is essential to understand its characteristics. In this paper, we present the first large-scale study of data corruption. We analyze corruption instances recorded in production storage systems

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: FAST
• Authors: Lakshmi N. Bairavasundaram, Garth R. Goodson, Bianca Schroeder, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau, Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau
• Keywords: Corruption Instances, Data Corruption, FAST 2008, Operating System, Silent Data Corruption