On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:35 AM, 胡瀚森 <softrank.net@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? The statement means that the sequence of replacement choices for position 2 is independent of whether position 1 has failed — the current node occupying position 1 isn't part of the function's input; there isn't a roundabout way that it influences the input, etc. >>>...making it unweildly for parity schemes. > Here, what does "unweildly" mean? is it "unwieldy" or something else? Yep, that's a typo. It should say "unwieldy"! :) -Greg -- 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
