Re: Suggestion for CD filesystem for Backups

[Toon van der Pas]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 01:18:19AM -0400, Ali Bayazit wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 17:16 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Iau, 2004-09-23 at 00:04, Judith und Mirko Kloppstech wrote:
> > > Why not write a file system on top of ISO9660 which uses the rest of the 
> > > CD to write error correction. If a sector becomes unreadable, the error 
> > > correction saves the data. Besides, a tool for testing the error rate 
> > > and the safety of the data can be easily written for a normal CD-ROM drive.
> > > 
> > > The data for error correction might be written into a file so that the 
> > > CD can be read using any System, but Linux provides error correction.
> > 
> > Send patches, or possibly if you are dumping tars and the like just
> > write yourself an app to generate a second file of ECC data.
> 
> Wouldn't it be safer to do ECC on meta-data also?
> That probably means replacing ISO9660 though.

There seems to be a good user space alternative for this purpose:

	http://dvdisaster.berlios.de

Regards,
Toon.
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