On 10/05/2014 14:40, Andreas Joachim Peters wrote:
> Hi Loic, 
> I think it is good to have the flexibility to include the global parity 
> stripes in local subgroups or as in the picture to make a subgroup out of the 
> global parities and compute a local paritiy for them. Although with the 
> chosen parameters these local subgroups are not symmetric (5,5 and 4 chunks 
> per group)  but e.g. for 8+4 one would have 3 symmetric local groups as drawn 
> and if you project is on a three data center setup you would like to have for 
> each center a local parity. 
> 
> But wasn't this already possible with your prototype implementation?

It was possible to distribute in this way, indeed. But there is no support for 
the implied parity idea. I wonder how that would fit.

Cheers

> 
> Cheers Andreas.
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Loic Dachary [[email protected]]
> Sent: 09 May 2014 17:35
> To: Andreas Joachim Peters
> Cc: Ceph Development
> Subject: Implied parity and erasure code
> 
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> The "implied parity bloc" mentionned page 4 of 
> http://anrg.usc.edu/~maheswaran/Xorbas.pdf is something we've not discussed 
> in the context of the implementation of the pyramid erasure code plugin. I'm 
> not sure if it would be useful to have. Do you have an opinion ?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> --
> Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre
> 

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Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre

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