[zfec-dev] Redundancy ?

[zooko]

On Oct 23, 2008, at 20:46 PM, James Mills wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:36 AM, zooko <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
>> This sounds like the terminology in the README.txt might need to be
>> improved.

> 100% is a bit misleading, and an earlier
> example in the same README.txt states
> 6% redundancy (no idea how that is
> calculated either).

Oh, I remember why I wrote this in the README.txt.  It's because the  
"par2" tool uses that kind of terminology, describing the  
"redundancy" as the amount of *extra* data as a percentage of the  
original data.

That part of the README.txt is intended to contrast zfec and par2  
performance.

If you figure out what to do with zfec, do let us know.  :-)

Regards,

Zooko
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