On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 11:08:59PM +0100, Andrea Mazzoleni wrote: [...] I've a side question, a bit OT, but maybe you could help with the answer. How about par2? How does this work? They claim "Vendermonde" matrix and they seem to be quite flexible in amount of parities. The could be in GF(2^16), so maybe this makes a difference... 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