I came across this page a few years back that discusses this very
problem:
http://users.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/rsbep.html
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 01:44:55PM -0400, David Mathog wrote:
This is off topic so I will try to keep it short: is there an
"archival" format for large binary files w
Hi,
Am 08.06.2010 um 19:44 schrieb David Mathog:
This is off topic so I will try to keep it short: is there an
"archival" format for large binary files which contains enough error
correction to that all original data may be recovered even if there
is a
little data loss in the storage media?
What's the ramification of losing a block? (ie file-system won't
mount, data has a hole)
Not that it's elegant, the first thing that pops to mind is using
'split' to chunk the file into many little bits and then md5 each bit
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 1:44 PM, David Mathog wrote:
> This is off top
This is off topic so I will try to keep it short: is there an
"archival" format for large binary files which contains enough error
correction to that all original data may be recovered even if there is a
little data loss in the storage media?
For my purposes these are disk images, sometimes .ta
