Self-Healing in Modern Operating Systems

ABSTRACT

A few early steps show there's a long (and bumpy) road ahead.
Driving the stretch of Route 101 that connects San Francisco to Menlo Park each day, billboard faces smilingly reassure me that all is well in computerdom in 2004. Networks and servers, they tell me, can self-defend, self-diagnose, self-heal, and even have enough computing power left over from all this introspection to perform their owner-assigned tasks.

REFERENCES

• 1: See http://sun.com/software/solaris/10/ and http://sun.com/msg/.
• 2: Brown, A., and D. Patterson. 2001. Embracing failure: A case for recovery-oriented computing (ROC). High Performance Transaction Processing Symposium, Asilomar, CA (October 2001); see http://roc.cs.berkeley.edu/.
• 3: George Candea , Armando Fox, Recursive Restartability: Turning the Reboot Sledgehammer into a Scalpel, Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, p.125, May 20-22, 2001
• 4: Luke Mewburn, The Design and Implementation of the NetBSD rc.d System, Proceedings of the FREENIX Track: 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, p.69-79, June 25-30, 2001

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  D. Software
  D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
      D.4.5 Reliability
          Subjects: Fault-tolerance

Additional Classification:
  D. Software
  D.4 OPERATING SYSTEMS
      D.4.0 General
      D.4.5 Reliability
          Subjects: Backup procedures