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Re:Bcachefs – A general purpose COW filesystem by acqq on Friday August 21, 2015 @11:16AM (#10098046)
The problem with the erasure coding implementations: patents. An example:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141115/07113529155/paten...

Re:Bcachefs – A general purpose COW filesystem by coalescence on Friday August 21, 2015 @03:38PM (#10099756)
There are a few different profiles offered in the Ceph Erasure Coded Pool support, afaik they are based on research papers. Assume due diligence done to ensure they can be used openly (ianal etc).

http://ceph.com/docs/master/rados/operations/erasure-code-pr...

edit: Indeed, checked jerasure site and that's gone.