Hello, has anybody ever heard of RAID^n technology, developed and patented by a company called Inostor (http://www.inostor.com)? It is designed to offer protection against the simultaneous failure of an arbitrary number of arbitrary disks. The pdf files publicly available on their homepage states that the algorithms used by them to implement an m+n RAID system (m data disks, n redundancy disks) are NOT the well-known Reed-Solomon codes as e.g. described in a well-known paper by J. Plank. Does anybody have a notion how RAID^n works? Their algorithms used seem to hold a regular US patent. Many thanks and best regards Oliver Tennert __ ________________________________________creating IT solutions Dr. Oliver Tennert science + computing ag phone +49(0)7071 9457-598 Hagellocher Weg 71-75 fax +49(0)7071 9457-411 D-72070 Tuebingen, Germany O.Tennert@science-computing.de www.science-computing.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
