@InProceedings{wiebalck:enbd,
  author = {Arne Wiebalck and Peter T. Breuer and Volker Lindenstruth and Timm
  M. Steinbeck},
  title = {Fault-Tolerant Distributed Mass Storage for LHC Computing},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Third IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
  Cluster Computing and the Grid},
  year = {2003},
  month = {May},
  pages = {266--275},
  publisher = {IEEE Computer Society Press},
  address = {Tokyo, Japan},
  URL =
  {http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/ccgrid/2003/1919/00/19190266abs.htm},
  keywords = {RAID, fault-tolerance, high-energy physics, parallel I/O,
  pario-app, pario-bib},
  abstract = {In this paper we present the concept and first prototyping
  results of a modular fault-tolerant distributed mass storage architecture for
  large Linux PC clusters as they are deployed by the upcoming particle physics
  experiments. The device masquerading technique using an Enhanced Network
  Block Device (ENBD) enables local RAID over remote disks as the key concept
  of the ClusterRAID system. The block level interface to remote files,
  partitions or disks provided by the ENBD makes it possible to use the
  standard Linux software RAID to add fault-tolerance to the system.
  Preliminary performance measurements indicate that the latency is comparable
  to a local hard drive. With four disks throughput rates of up to 55MB/s were
  achieved with first prototypes for a RAID0 setup, and about 40MB/s for a
  RAID5 setup.}
}