11 Mar
2011
11 Mar
'11
4:33 p.m.
On 3/11/11 4:03 PM, William Maddox wrote:
I haven't had chance to look at it carefully, but
this looks like it is addressing the issue.
I had looked at this a while back. The problem is what it is targeted at solving:
"The original idea behind this project was to provide a tool to apply the
data-recovery
capability concepts of RAID-like systems to the posting and recovery of multi-part
archives on Usenet."
This doesn't map at all to use in a digital repository, where you (well,
"I") don't want to explode a
container and scatter it across physical disks.
I guess the big philosophical issue I have with these schemes is do you wrap something
around
a data container (try to make it self-describing), or leave it as two separate containers
("read-only" and
"up datable").