Embodiments of the invention relate to data placement for loss protection in a storage system, where data is stored as {HEAD ~ physical bits} spread over {TAIL ~ multiple physical containers} 
Embodiments of the invention relate to data placement for loss protection in a storage system , where data is stored as { HEAD ~ physical bits } spread over { TAIL ~ multiple physical containers }
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