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Self-Healing in Modern Operating Systems
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Volume 2 ,  Issue 9  (December/January 2004-2005) table of contents
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FEATURE: Features table of contents
Pages: 66 - 75  
Year of Publication: 2004
ISSN:1542-7730
Author
Michael W. Shapiro  Sun Microsystems
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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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.


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See http://sun.com/software/solaris/10/ and http://sun.com/msg/.
 
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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/.
 
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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


REVIEW

"Bayard Kohlhepp : Reviewer"

Blue screens of death and cryptic error messages are all too common in contemporary systems, while graceful recovery and restart are all too rare. This paper documents a first step on the thousand-mile journey to self-healing operating systems. more...