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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Thiemo Nagel <thiemo.nagel@ph.tum.de>
Cc: Linux RAID Mailing List <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: On the subject of RAID-6 corruption recovery
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:49:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <477EE21F.4070505@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <58669.88.217.65.202.1199496331.squirrel@www.e18.physik.tu-muenchen.de>

Thiemo Nagel wrote:
> 
> That's why I was asking about the generator.  Theoretically, this
> situation might be countered by using a (pseudo-)random pattern of
> generators for the different bytes of a sector, though I'm not sure
> whether it is worth the effort.
> 

Changing the generator is mathematically equivalent to changing the 
order of the drives, so no, that wouldn't help (and would make the 
common computations a lot more expensive.)

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-05  1:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-28  2:58 On the subject of RAID-6 corruption recovery H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-28 14:38 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-12-28 17:34   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-04 23:59 ` Thiemo Nagel
2008-01-05  0:03   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-05  0:41     ` Thiemo Nagel
2008-01-05  0:45       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-05  1:25         ` Thiemo Nagel
2008-01-05  1:49           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-01-07  9:28         ` Thiemo Nagel
2008-01-07  9:58           ` Mattias Wadenstein
2008-01-07 11:10             ` Thiemo Nagel
2008-01-07 17:20             ` H. Peter Anvin

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