On 04/22/2010 09:14 PM, Tirumala Reddy Marri wrote: > > Is there a reason for hard coding 0x11d as polynomial ? The problem I > ran into was when I was trying disk fail test there was issue in > recovering the data. Then it turned out to be ADMA was using polynomial > 0x14d and SW algorithm was using 0x11d. This was because syndrome > calculated using DMA engine and recovery done using SW api. > Yes, it would mean the on-disk format would be incompatible otherwise. Everyone needs to use the same polynomial. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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
