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epistasis 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Erasure Coding for Distributed Systems

This has been used in Ceph for a long time:

https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/rados/operations/erasure-cod...

I would not be surprised if there was a lot of stuff like this behind S3 and other cloud storage systems too, at least in the lower-access tiers of storage, but I have no actual knowledge of AWS or GCP systems.

preisschild 4 months ago [–]

Yeah, I use it in my homelab and it is really awesome to have "RAID(5/6)" basically work over the network.

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