Hi Andrea, On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 08:55:08AM +0100, Andrea Mazzoleni wrote: > Hi Piergiorgio, > > > How about par2? How does this work? > I checked the matrix they use, and sometimes it contains some singular > square submatrix. > It seems that in GF(2^16) these cases are just less common. Maybe they > were just unnoticed. > > Anyway, this seems to be an already known problem for PAR2, with an > hypothetical PAR3 fixing it: > > http://sourceforge.net/p/parchive/discussion/96282/thread/d3c6597b/ you did a pretty damn good research work! Maybe you should consider to contact them too. I'm not sure if your approach can be extended to GF(2^16), I guess yes, in that case they might be interested too. 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