Subject: Re: Suggestion for CD filesystem for Backups
From: Ali Bayazit <listeci@bayazit.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Judith und Mirko Kloppstech <jugal@gmx.net>,
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 01:18:19 -0400
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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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