Hi Piergiorgio, Just being curious, any mathematical improvement in Reed-Solomon's code like the RS(96,64) you mentioned? The calculation of RS involves arbitrary multiplication in a Galois field and table look-up has to be used. Has that already changed? Cheers, Alex On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 -- 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
