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Can someone explain me this : I did not get this statement : "For every two chunks of data, we need one parity block, so the storage overhead is 50% (Figure 2)". But the image we have used 4 chunks to create one P1 and P2 respectively

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What’s a real time example of this?

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Erasure coding can be implemented in various ways depending on the specific application and desired level of protection. Some of the commonly used algorithms are

- Rabin's Information Dispersal Algorithm

- Reed-Solomon codes

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RAID 5 storage configuration uses erasure coding.

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