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title : New data loss model for RAID system
contactname: Luoming ZHANG
contactmail_mail: luoming.zhang@epfl.ch
contacttel: 021-693-13-13
contactroom: BC 158
type : master semester
state : unavailable
created_dt : 2011-09-22
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Description: MTTDL is one of the most frequently used model in the storage
reliability community. It's calculated by the Markov-chain model. In
order to get a nice mathematical description,it's based on simplistic
assumptions about the the physical system. So it has several drawbacks
even though it's widely used as a gauge for storage system reliability.
For example, the MTTDL model assumes all the devices in RAID to be new
device after every reconstruction. Actually, this is not true which lead
to some results that archive system has life time of 1400 years. The
project is aimed at building up a new more reasonable model for RAID
system reliability considering the continuous disk failure, the sector
latent error and so on.

Requirement: Probability, especially good at Markov chains. Better with
basic understanding of RAID system