libjerasure-dev - 2.0.0+2017.04.10.git.de1739cc84-2 main

In information theory, an erasure code is a forward error correction (FEC)
code for the binary erasure channel, which transforms a message of symbols
into a longer message (code word) with symbols such that the original
message can be recovered from a subset of the symbols.
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Jerasure is a shared library that been designed to be modular, fast and
flexible. It is used in storage systems such as Swift and Ceph to add fault
tolerance.
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This package contains the development files needed to build against the shared
library.