12 Aug
2004
12 Aug
'04
6:07 p.m.
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Teo Zenios wrote:
Festival
You are much better off using a system that is already used by others then
making one up as you go since the odds are a common recovery method would
survive longer.
I have no intention to have anyone invent new wheels for this project.
All algorithms used within the spec should be reliable, proven, aged ones
that are in wide use and widely understood, implemented, and documented.
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Error correction is just an added bonus and may or
may
not be worth the additional effort. Perhaps optional
additional redundancy (OpenVMS BACKUP will write a
parity block of data for every N blocks of real
data, PAR implements "RAID for newsgroups").
It should be possible to add error correcting data to the archive.
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