[Resource Topic] 2010/214: How to Tell if Your Cloud Files Are Vulnerable to Drive Crashes

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Title:
How to Tell if Your Cloud Files Are Vulnerable to Drive Crashes

Authors: Kevin D. Bowers, Marten van Dijk, Ari Juels, Alina Oprea, Ronald L. Rivest

Abstract:

This paper presents a new challenge—verifying that a remote server is storing a file in a fault-tolerant manner, i.e., such that it can survive hard-drive failures. We describe an approach called the Remote Assessment of Fault Tolerance (RAFT). The key technique in a RAFT is to measure the time taken for a server to respond to a read request for a collection of file blocks. The larger the number of hard drives across which a file is distributed, the faster the read-request response. Erasure codes also play an important role in our solution. We describe a theoretical framework for RAFTs and show experimentally that RAFTs can work in practice.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/214

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