[ale] Organizing large files on small media

Jeff Lightner jlightner at water.com
Tue Jul 17 15:25:06 EDT 2007


Yes it was but you weren't supposed to notice it was in the wrong
thread.  D'oh!

 

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I'm guessing this was meant for the Alpharetta Power thread

On 7/17/07, Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com > wrote:

Most of the growth was in the 90s - I recall when Windward Parkway had
only 3 data centers going right off the north bound lanes and almost
nothing going left.   Back then (early 90s) going to the Holiday Inn
data center felt like one was just doing a rest stop on the way to
Helen.

I had a coworker in 97 that moved from Alpharetta to in town Atlanta
because the traffic was actually better in the latter by then.

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Thompson Freeman
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 9:50 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Organizing large files on small media 

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...
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