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[ale] Organizing large files on small media
- Subject: [ale] Organizing large files on small media
- From: tfreeman at intel.digichem.net (Thompson Freeman)
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:50:25 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (from [email protected] on Tue Jul 17 08:51:12 2007)
- References: <[email protected]>
On 07/17/2007 08:51:12 AM, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Look at PAR. It can create a par archive files at any
> size you specify
> that will have redundancy built it. It is based on the
> Reed-Solomon
> CRC. Same CRC that is in CDs and used with probes we send
> to space. If
> you have enough DVDs you could actually lose one DVD and
> still have
> enough data to rebuild what was lost.
Sounds neat. I'll look into it a little later. My daughter
has connectivity issues that I'm supposed to look into...