-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/05/06 18:27, Mike McCarty wrote: > Douglas Tutty wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 05:47:23PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: >>> Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >>>> Douglas Tutty wrote: >>>>> I'm going to be backing up to a portable ruggedized hard drive. >>>>> Currently, my backups end up in tar.bz2 format. > [snip] [snip] >>> [snip] [snip] >> I've looked at par2. It looks interesting. For me, the question is how >> to implement it for archiving onto a drive since the ECC data are >> separate files rather than being included within one data stream. > > You could implement your own FEC. A very simple form of FEC is simply
Yes, but *why*? Tape storage systems have been using ECC for decades. There's a whole lot of "Linux people" who's knowledge of computer history seems to have started in 1991, and thus all the many lessons learned in 30 years of computing are lost. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFdhWCS9HxQb37XmcRAqfhAKCVL2+Da0wBAI9FCvNDvXPCfbB+7QCgz+kx IFQUOeS/tHQ+WptZkwapY0s= =hXfa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
