9 Mar
2011
9 Mar
'11
1:32 p.m.
On 3/9/11 10:19 AM, Richard wrote:
OTOH I keep all of my images compressed, precisely because I want to know if any copy has
been corrupted.
(And I md5sum them as well out of FUD).
If I find out that any storage media or storage bus is silently corrupting my data without
error messages... I would rather know that sooner than later.
Tim.
In article<4D77C151.90005 at
bitsavers.org>,
Al Kossow<aek at bitsavers.org> writes:
exactly. I made a decision a long time ago that the
primary mode of storage would
either be media images or uncompressed archive files (tar, or uncompressed
zip, mostly).
Just out of curiosity: why uncompressed?
Is it so that localized corruption of the archives doesn't preclude
extraction of the remaining contents?