Hi Peter, > Perhaps it was not clear that "use self repairing coding > similarly to Parchive" does not mean the same as "use Parchive". sorry, I understood you meant storing somewhere files with parities. > Applying self repairing coding to RAID might be easier to > imagine considering of a RAID volume as a directory of > stripe-sized files. Exactly, but as far as I know this is the same as any N parities RAID. I mean, the mathematics and algorithm behind should be exactly the same... bye, -- piergiorgio -- 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