We present a new class of array codes based on a generalization of the RAID5 XOR parity code. The R5X0(n, r, p) code protects an array of n data disks and p parity disks with r symbols per column from as many as p arbitrary column erasures. Decoding and encoding in R5X0 is computed using only XOR and cyclic shift operations. R5X0 is a simple geometric generalization of RAID5 and has optimal update complexity (the number of parity symbols affected by a single data symbol is exactly p) and asymptotically optimal storage effciency for its distance. The only geometric constraint on the R5X0 layout is that r (p - 1) · n.
By: Jeff R. Hartline, Tapas Kanungo, James Lee Hafner
Published in: RJ10322 in 2004
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