Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268172AbUIWRWq (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:22:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266295AbUIWRVa (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:21:30 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:38883 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268019AbUIWRTR (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:19:17 -0400 Subject: Re: Suggestion for CD filesystem for Backups From: Alan Cox To: Judith und Mirko Kloppstech Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <415204E0.9010203@gmx.net> References: <415204E0.9010203@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1095956209.6776.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 17:16:50 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 890 Lines: 17 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/