From: Ali Bayazit <listeci@bayazit.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Judith und Mirko Kloppstech <jugal@gmx.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion for CD filesystem for Backups
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:18:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096003099.16849.16.camel@mevlevi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1095956209.6776.36.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 17:16 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.
>
Wouldn't it be safer to do ECC on meta-data also?
That probably means replacing ISO9660 though.
-ali
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Ali Bayazit <listeci@bayazit.net>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-07 16:45 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
2004-09-24 5:18 ` Ali Bayazit [this message]
2005-02-07 22:51 ` Toon van der Pas
2004-09-23 18:40 ` Erik Hanson
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