Hi Alex, > 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? AFAIK (details are not public) it uses the stardard RS with LUT operations. Considering that this is for network disks, I suppose there is no performance problem. The RS(255,223) or RS(160,128) are very old encoding schemes, we talk about Voyager space probe here. What I know about improvement, is the decoding using the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm. This is quite hard, since it also find *where* error are, but it seems there is some work out there on how to implement it very efficiently. My personal opinion is that the first thing to do is to have a working system, later it could be possible to improve performance by different optimizations. For example LUT multiplication might or might not be the best way, but at first it is the easy way to do it. 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
