Hi everyone. I've received a nice and welcome response last time. Thank you. I've got some other questions this time. thesis can be found: http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Papers/weil-sc06.pdf at page 4, chapter 3.2.2 Replica Ranks, under Figure 2. >>...thus defining a sequence of candidates for each replica rank that are probabilistically independent of others' failures. Here, why "probabilistically" instead of "certainly"? and what's others' failure? >>...making it unweildly for parity schemes. Here, what does "unweildly" mean? is it "unwieldy" or something else? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html