> > On 9-Nov-07, at 3:23 PM, Scott Laird wrote: > > > Most video formats are designed to handle > errors--they'll drop a frame > > or two, but they'll resync quickly. So, depending > on the size of the > > error, there may be a visible glitch, but it'll > keep working. > > > > Interestingly enough, this applies to a lot of > MPEG-derived formats as > > well, like MP3. I had a couple bad copies of MP3s > that I tried to > > listen to on my computer a few weeks ago (podcasts > copied via > > bluetooth off of my phone, apparently with no error > checking), and it > > made the story hard to follow when a few seconds > would disappear out > > of the middle, but it didn't destroy the file. > > Well that's nice. How about your database, your > source code, your ZIP > file, your encrypted file, ...
They won't be affected, because they're so much smaller that (at something like 1 error per 10 TB) the chance of an error hitting them is negligible: that was the whole point of singling out huge video files as the only likely candidates to worry about. - bill This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
