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From: Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor@nexgo.de>
Subject: Re: Is this enough for us to have triple-parity RAID?
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:18:48 +0200
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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,

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piergiorgio