From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Piergiorgio Sartor Subject: Re: Triple parity and beyond Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:29:03 +0100 Message-ID: <20131120222903.GA3654@lazy.lzy> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrea Mazzoleni Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, david.brown@hesbynett.no, creamyfish@gmail.com List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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