I should thank you, though it’s also meant I’ve lost most of the last 3 days:
After our discussion I went and found the current work on PAR2/PAR3 (which, for those in the know: the current PAR3 format is not the old on the was never finished, but a spec that’s been re-written and is close to completion with real-world tools close behind) and I have a lot more hope for the future of parity files.
I still think they are wildly under-utilized (BackBlaze has always used them, but they are the only business I know of), but we might be having a different conversation in 2-3 years.
After our discussion I went and found the current work on PAR2/PAR3 (which, for those in the know: the current PAR3 format is not the old on the was never finished, but a spec that’s been re-written and is close to completion with real-world tools close behind) and I have a lot more hope for the future of parity files.
I still think they are wildly under-utilized (BackBlaze has always used them, but they are the only business I know of), but we might be having a different conversation in 2-3 years.