[tahoe-dev] What are the common variable names for erasure coding parameters?

[Brian Warner]

> Okay, there isn't really a consensus, but "n" is more popular than  
> "m" for the total number of shares, so I will start using it and I  
> might someday get around to changing the zfec API and docs and code  
> from "m" to "n".

Just to add to the confusion, I watched the Wuala techtalk yesterday, and
they use "m" for required shares and "n" for total shares.

I like k-of-n, but that's just me :).

 -Brian