[ale] Organizing large files on small media

[Thompson Freeman]

On 07/17/2007 08:51:12 AM, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Look at PAR.  It can create a par archive files at any
> size you specify
> that will have redundancy built it.   It is based on the
> Reed-Solomon
> CRC.  Same CRC that is in CDs and used with probes we send
> to space.  If
> you have enough DVDs you could actually lose one DVD and
> still have
> enough data to rebuild what was lost.

Sounds neat. I'll look into it a little later. My daughter  
has connectivity issues that I'm supposed to look into...