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Re:Zfec – Efficient, portable erasure coding tool by vu3rdd on Thursday November 17, 2016 @10:40AM (#12978349)
One of the authors of Tahoe-LAFS and the original creator of zfec, Zooko, co-authored a paper on the performance of such codes.

http://nisl.wayne.edu/Papers/Tech/code-pf-fast09.pdf

Luigi Rizzo is the original author of the fec C library.

I co-maintain zfec (and the Debian package of it) along with Zooko. A new release of zfec is planned to be out soonish.

edit: removing the <> delimiters around the URL. Sorry!

Re:Zfec – Efficient, portable erasure coding tool by zokier on Thursday November 17, 2016 @11:52AM (#12979060)
HN sadly does not support <> URL delimiters, so your link ends up 404. Here is it without delimiters:

http://nisl.wayne.edu/Papers/Tech/code-pf-fast09.pdf

Re:Zfec – Efficient, portable erasure coding tool by vu3rdd on Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:05PM (#12979199)
Thanks. Updated the link.