<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Alex Carver <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agcarver+ale@acarver.net" target="_blank">agcarver+ale@acarver.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":29b" class="" style="overflow:hidden">Parchive is not currently on the approved list of utilities. I can only<br>
use very well known utilities and methods that have a high degree of<br>
longevity in terms of support or understanding. Things like tar and cat<br>
are very well understood, have been around for decades and are not<br>
likely to go anywhere for a long time. Parchive hasn't been around as<br>
long and the specification and implementation is still changing.</div></blockquote></div><br>I'm not clear on your understanding of how Parchive works and what it is for. It's merely for verifying the integrity of data, and repairing said data if there is corruption. It is not an archive file format ala tar, zip, et alii.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As for longevity, Parchive is nothing more than an application of Reed-Solomon coding. The algorithm isn't new, and it is used pretty much everywhere[1].</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">[1] -- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Solomon_error_correction">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed–Solomon_error_correction</a><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>James Sumners<br><a href="http://james.sumners.info/" target="_blank">http://james.sumners.info/</a> (technical profile)</div><div><a href="http://jrfom.com/" target="_blank">http://jrfom.com/</a> (personal site)</div><div><a href="http://haplo.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">http://haplo.bandcamp.com/</a> (band page)</div></div></div></div></div>
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