Could we use something better than zip for the dmd package?
Vladimir Panteleev
vladimir at thecybershadow.net
Thu Dec 22 19:30:32 PST 2011
On Friday, 23 December 2011 at 03:24:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/22/2011 11:27 AM, Mirko Pilger wrote:
>> i use 7z myself for backups for a couple of years now
>
> I quit using compression for backups. The problem was that if
> the backup media lost even one bit, you lose the entirety of
> the compressed file(s). Yes, this happened.
>
> It's also a problem because my file searching programs don't
> look inside compressed files.
RAR (and some others) supports "recovery records" and "recovery
volumes" (redundant data). The cool thing about them is that with
a recovery record of 10%, ANY 10% of the archive's blocks may be
lost and the entire archive can be recovered. It was a life-saver
back in the days of floppies.
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