Weaver Codes: Highly Fault Tolerant Erasure Codes for Storage Systems (2005)
(usenix.org)
It has become increasingly clear in the storage industry that RAID5 does not provide sufficient reliability against loss of data either because of multiple concurrent disk losses or disk losses together with sector losses (e.g., due to medium errors from the disks).
It has become increasingly clear in the storage industry that RAID5 does not provide sufficient reliability against loss of data either because of multiple concurrent disk losses or disk losses together with sector losses (e.g., due to medium errors from the disks).