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@MISC{Gray85whydo,
author = {Jim Gray},
title = {Why Do Computers Stop And What Can Be Done About It?},
year = {1985}
}
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An analysis of the failure statistics of a commercially available fault-tolerant system shows that administration and software are the major contributors to failure. Various approaches to software fault-tolerance are then discussed -- notably process-pairs, transactions and reliable storage. It is pointed out that faults in production software are often soft (transient) and that a transaction mechanism combined with persistent processpairs provides fault-tolerant execution -- the key to software fault-tolerance.
