[MooseFS-Users] Erasure coding

[Nathan M. <nat...@gm...>]

Hello,

Is adding erasure coding a possibility in the future of MooseFS? I'd 
like more granularity in the efficiency of redundancy than just 0% 
redundancy (goal=1), 100% redundancy (goal=2), 200% redundancy (goal=3), 
etc... Particularly something more space saving than goal=2 but more 
safe than goal=1, something like 5 out of 6 file chunks must exist on 
network for file to be reconstructed (120% redundancy).

Is this likely or would it constrain performance too much?  Even so I 
imagine it could be added and not used by the more performance sensitive 
users.  And obviously if in use one would want to set goal=1 as erasure 
coding would make replication of chunks pointless.

I realize there are other filesystems with erasure builtin, but they all 
seem to lack the right amount of polish, stability and ease of use/setup 
that MooseFS seems to have.


Thanks