Independent Row-Oblique Parity for Double Disk Failure Correction

Chih-Shing TAU
Tzone-I WANG

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E89-A    No.2    pp.592-599
Publication Date: 2006/02/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1337
DOI: 10.1093/ietfec/e89-a.2.592
Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Coding Theory
Keyword: 
disk array,  explosive-or operation,  parity placement scheme,  RAID,  row-oblique parity,  

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Summary: 
This paper proposes a parity placement scheme, Row-Oblique Parity (ROP), for protecting against double disk failure in disk array systems. It stores all data unencoded, and uses only exclusive-or (XOR) operations to compute parity. ROP is provably optimal in computational complexity, both during construction and reconstruction. It is optimal in the capacity of redundant information stored and accessed. The simplicity of ROP allowed us to implement it within the current available RAID framework.

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