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maaku on April 16, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: 4Q: the final archive format

This is a transport problem, however. Why not calculate the error correction codes on the fly? Why wast disk blocks?

angry_octet on April 17, 2015 [–]

Because you want to guarantee a certain error margin, regardless of the error detection & retransmit/correct capability of whatever networks/file systems/media it traverses in the interval till you want to read it.

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