A tradeoff analysis of delayed reconstruction for storage clusters
Qiang Cao, Hongyan Li, Yan Qin Yang, Makoto Takizawa, Naixue N. Xiong · 2010
Considering a large part of node failures in a storage clusters cannot actually destroy data in disks and even some failed nodes can soon recover, a policy that deferring a reconstruction until recover during a certain time after a node failure can lessen unnecessary data rebuilding process is absolutely possible and favorable, but it also undoubtedly introduces a certain risk of data loss.