@InProceedings{brown:benchmarks,
  author = {Aaron Brown and David A. Patterson},
  title = {Towards Availability Benchmarks: A Case Study of Software {RAID}
  System},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2000 USENIX Technical Conference},
  year = {2000},
  pages = {263--276},
  publisher = {USENIX Association},
  URL =
  {http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix2000/general/brown.html},
  keywords = {RAID, disk array, parallel I/O, pario-bib},
  abstract = {Benchmarks have historically played a key role in guiding the
  progress of computer science systems research and development, but have
  traditionally neglected the areas of availability, maintainability, and
  evolutionary growth, areas that have recently become critically important in
  high-end system design. As a first step in addressing this deficiency, we
  introduce a general methodology for benchmarking the availability of computer
  systems. Our methodology uses fault injection to provoke situations where
  availability may be compromised, leverages existing performance benchmarks
  for workload generation and data collection, and can produce results in both
  detail-rich graphical presentations or in distilled numerical summaries. We
  apply the methodology to measure the availability of the software RAID
  systems shipped with Linux, Solaris 7 Server, and Windows 2000 Server, and
  find that the methodology is powerful enough not only to quantify the impact
  of various failure conditions on the availability of these systems, but also
  to unearth their design philosophies with respect to transient errors and
  recovery policy.}
}