Related to the post, some disk and filesystem reliability research in chronological order, including things from the author. Disks: An Analysis of Latent Sect

Related to the post, some disk and filesystem reliability research in chronological order, including things from the author. Disks: An Analysis of Latent Sector Errors in Disk Drives (2007) https://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/latent-sigmetrics07.ps https://research.cs.wisc.edu/adsl/Publications/latent-sigmet... Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population (2007) https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/disk_failures.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... Cycles, Cells and Platters: An Empirical Analysis of Hardware Failures on a Million Consumer PCs (2012) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/eurosys84-nightingale.pdf https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/... Flash Reliability in Production: The Expected and the Unexpected (2016) https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/fast16/fast16-papers-schroeder.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/fast16/fast16... Filesystems: IRON File Systems (how filesystems behave on disk errors) (2005) https://research.cs.wisc.edu/wind/Publications/iron-sosp05.pdf https://research.cs.wisc.edu/wind/Publications/iron-sosp05.p... EIO: Error Handling is Occasionally Correct (2008) https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/fast08/tech/full_papers/gunawi/gunawi.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/fast08/tech/full_papers/... SQCK: A Declarative File System Checker (2008) https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/osdi08/tech/full_papers/gunawi/gunawi.pdf https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/osdi08/tech/full_papers... All File Systems Are Not Created Equal: On the Complexity of Crafting Crash-Consistent Applications (2014) https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14-paper-pillai.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/osdi14/osdi14... Filesystem error handling (2017) https://danluu.com/filesystem-errors/ https://danluu.com/filesystem-errors/ Files are fraught with peril (2019) https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files/ https://danluu.com/deconstruct-files/ And a DRAM reliability paper, for a more complete picture: DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study (2009) https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf