zfs discuss - Feb 2007 - Disk Failure Rates and Error Rates -- ( Off topic: Jim Gray lost at sea)

Selim Daoud wrote:
> here''s an interesting status report published by Microsoft labs
>
> 
http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?msr_tr_id=MSR-TR-2005-166 



That is the paper in which Jim Gray coined "Mean time to data loss".
It''s been quoted here before.

Sad note: Turing award winner Jim Gray has been missing now for two
weeks, after he went sailing out of San Fransisco on his sailboat
Tenacious on jan 28.

Friends of Jim mobilised Amazon''s mechanical Turk to scan the ocean
for possible signs of the boat.  The search efforts can be tracked
at http://openphi.net/tenacious/



Regards,

-- 
Henk Langeveld <henk at hlangeveld.nl>

Here''s another website working on his rescue, myy prayers are for a
safe return of this CS icon.

http://www.helpfindjim.com/
 
 
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Henk Langeveld wrote:
> Selim Daoud wrote:
>> here''s an interesting status report published by Microsoft
labs
>>
>>
>
http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?msr_tr_id=MSR-TR-2005-166
> 
> That is the paper in which Jim Gray coined "Mean time to data
loss".
> It''s been quoted here before.
Nit: MTTDL has been in the reliability vernacular for quite some time,
long (decades) before Gray''s 2005 paper.
> Sad note: Turing award winner Jim Gray has been missing now for two
> weeks, after he went sailing out of San Fransisco on his sailboat
> Tenacious on jan 28.
> 
> Friends of Jim mobilised Amazon''s mechanical Turk to scan the
ocean
> for possible signs of the boat.  The search efforts can be tracked
> at http://openphi.net/tenacious/
We all hope for his safe return.
  -- richard