[epcoa]

Sidestep what problem? Backblaze is a practical application of Reed-Solomon coding. And the article text is " With a Reed-Solomon code, you’d need to perform a massive computation involving all the encoded data to recover your emails from that one lost server. " How is it apples and oranges?

Reed-Solomon coding is redundant, that's the whole point.

[iforgotpassword]

This is theoretical work. It was just an example trying to illustrate the difference.