Re: More questions about the thesis.

[Gregory Farnum <gregory.farnum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:35 AM, 胡瀚森 <softrank.net@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I've received a nice and welcome response last time. Thank you. I've
> got some other questions this time.
>
> thesis can be found: http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Papers/weil-sc06.pdf
>
> at page 4, chapter 3.2.2 Replica Ranks, under Figure 2.
>>>...thus defining a sequence of candidates for each replica rank that are probabilistically independent of others' failures.
> Here, why "probabilistically" instead of "certainly"? and what's
> others' failure?

The statement means that the sequence of replacement choices for
position 2 is independent of whether position 1 has failed — the
current node occupying position 1 isn't part of the function's input;
there isn't a roundabout way that it influences the input, etc.

>>>...making it unweildly for parity schemes.
> Here, what does "unweildly" mean? is it "unwieldy" or something else?

Yep, that's a typo. It should say "unwieldy"! :)
-Greg
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