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Re: [RFT] Reed-Solomon


From: Phillip Susi
Subject: Re: [RFT] Reed-Solomon
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:45:42 -0400
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On 9/28/2010 12:36 PM, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> My branch uses every available sector for redundancy info. So if you
> have 2*n sectors left in MBR gap you can survive n corrupted sectors.

You might want to place a reasonable limit on that.  With conventional
62 sector gaps this could be a good idea, but with everyone moving to 1
MB gaps these days, over 2000 sectors of ecc could be overkill ;)



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