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It's not even the reduction in storage costs in this paper that is groundbreaking. They talk about a way to not only reduce storage costs, but optimize for repa
by laluser 6y ago
It's not even the reduction in storage costs in this paper that is groundbreaking. They talk about a way to not only reduce storage costs, but optimize for repairs. Repairs are costly at scale and reducing resources where possible: network, cpu, disk reads, etc is ideal.
- toolslive 6y agoIndeed: erasure coding is easy (they have been doing it since the 60s). Your real problem is the repair problem.