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

[zooko]

On Dec 21, 2007, at 7:19 PM, Brian Warner wrote:

>> 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.

A-ha!  This is evidence that wuala descends from the academic-p2p/DHT  
tradition.

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

Well, we have consensus among you, me, and Alen:  k-of-n it is.   
Those p2p researchers and wuala hackers will just have to adjust  
their variable name expectations when they read our docs and source  
code.

Regards,

Zooko