Verónica's dissertation on #erasure-coding for #decentralization for fault-tolerant peer-to-peer storage systems
on 02023-01-04Warner calculates that #erasure-coding (rather than replication) makes your files more fragile, not less, in the independent-failures scenario if the probability of server failure is over 50%, even if it doesn’t “lull people into a false sense of security”, but that generally this is false.
on 02016-04-28Zooko says “#erasure-coding makes files more fragile, not less,” and “I think approximately 90% of all files that have ever been stored on a #Tahoe LAFS grid have died”. The reason he gives is that it “lulls people into a false sense of security”.
on 02016-04-28