Comment by mav3rick
7 years ago
By pushing this complexity up the stack and also having redundancy in storage. What's not correct can be an error and result in retries from the client that may be routed to good storage.
7 years ago
By pushing this complexity up the stack and also having redundancy in storage. What's not correct can be an error and result in retries from the client that may be routed to good storage.
But how do you even tell something's not correct? For example in the article they had to manually examine the index and find out some words were missing. How do you detect that not on the hardware level but up on the software level?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_cor...
Checksums
Just had a fun flashback to checksuming new builds of Windows media after manually burning/ before installing the build!