Interesting paper, thanks. Unfortunately, decode bandwidth when erasures are present (e.g. drives have failed) is not discussed. This is by far the speed bottleneck for Reed-Solomon and a potential hangup for a RS personality in md. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html