On 10/08/2011 20:31, Brian Bockelman wrote:
MTTF is a difficult number. Popular papers include: http://db.usenix.org/events/fast07/tech/schroeder/schroeder_html/index.html, http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdfTed is assuming a MTTF of 25kHours; I think that's overly pessimistic, although both papers indicate that MTTF is a crappy way to model disk lifetime.
see also [Gray05] http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=64599
