[jira] [Created] (HADOOP-12041) Get rid of current GaloisField implementation and re-implement the Java Reed-Solomon algorithm

["Kai Zheng (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Kai Zheng created HADOOP-12041:
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             Summary: Get rid of current GaloisField implementation and re-implement the Java Reed-Solomon algorithm
                 Key: HADOOP-12041
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12041
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Sub-task
            Reporter: Kai Zheng
            Assignee: Kai Zheng


Currently existing Java RS coders based on {{GaloisField}} implementation have some drawbacks or limitations:
* The decoder computes not really erased units unnecessarily (HADOOP-11871);
* The decoder requires parity units + data units order for the inputs in the decode API (HADOOP-12040);
* Need to support or align with native erasure coders regarding concrete coding algorithms and matrix, so Java coders and native coders can be easily swapped in/out and transparent to HDFS (HADOOP-12010);
* It's unnecessarily flexible but incurs some overhead, as HDFS erasure coding is totally a byte based data system, we don't need to consider other symbol size instead of 256.

This desires to re-implement the underlying facilities for the Java RS coders, getting rid of existing {{GaliosField}} from HDFS-RAID. Based on this work, Java RS coders will be re-implemented easily as well to resolve related issues.



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