There's a recent research project called Farsite which tries to answer these questions. http://research.microsoft.com/~adya/pubs/osdi2002.pdf http://research.m

There's a recent research project called Farsite which tries to answer these questions. http://research.microsoft.com/~adya/pubs/osdi2002.pdf http://research.microsoft.com/~adya/pubs/osdi2002.pdf