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Lack of I/O performance is becoming a limiting factor in many computing systems. The Stable Disk is a high performance fault-tolerant cached RAID subsystem which exploits write-cacheing. A memory-mapped stable memory is used as a fault-tolerant cache, the design of which incorporates VRAMs to support switch-mode checkpointing and to provide a fast, direct path to disk.
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Jones, J., Coghlan, B. (1994). Stable disk — A fault-tolerant cached RAID subsystem. In: Banâtre, M., Lee, P.A. (eds) Hardware and Software Architectures for Fault Tolerance. Fault Tolerance 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 774. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020024
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