[ale] Organizing large files on small media
Thompson Freeman
tfreeman at intel.digichem.net
Tue Jul 17 09:50:25 EDT 2007
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...
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