[flud-devel] Short-term plans

[Alen Peacock]

On 9/27/07, Alen Peacock <alenlpeacock at gmail.com> wrote:
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> A1. fix erasure coding

  I've long maintained that LDPC is a good choice for flud, based on
some initial experiments that I did a long time ago, confirming that
the *average* number of blocks needed for decode could be made to be
reasonable, even for a small number of blocks.  And while that is
still true, especially when there are a very large number of blocks,
I've done some more recent measurements that seem to show the
*variance* in the number of blocks might be unacceptable (that will
come as no surprise to many).  As part of fixing this, I may have to
recant my previous biases against RS encoding, which *can* provide us
with hard limits on the number of blocks needed.

Alen