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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Judith und Mirko Kloppstech <jugal@gmx.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion for CD filesystem for Backups
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:16:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1095956209.6776.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <415204E0.9010203@gmx.net>

On Iau, 2004-09-23 at 00:04, Judith und Mirko Kloppstech wrote:
> Why not write a file system on top of ISO9660 which uses the rest of the 
> CD to write error correction. If a sector becomes unreadable, the error 
> correction saves the data. Besides, a tool for testing the error rate 
> and the safety of the data can be easily written for a normal CD-ROM drive.
> 
> The data for error correction might be written into a file so that the 
> CD can be read using any System, but Linux provides error correction.

Send patches, or possibly if you are dumping tars and the like just
write yourself an app to generate a second file of ECC data.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-23 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-22 23:04 Suggestion for CD filesystem for Backups Judith und Mirko Kloppstech
2004-09-23 16:16 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-24  5:18   ` Ali Bayazit
2005-02-07 22:51     ` Toon van der Pas
2004-09-23 18:40 ` Erik Hanson

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