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Re:Archive that can be reconstructed with total loss of file... by simcop2387 on Sunday April 30, 2017 @01:57AM (#14230332)
Depends on the media. I think this would be awesome for archival usage on optical and tape media. Or even printed out in paper, since this looks like it'd let you rescan it in any order.
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Re:Archive that can be reconstructed with total loss of file... by dom0 on Sunday April 30, 2017 @05:07AM (#14230736)
Tape storage normally uses either an index (linear FS or off-tape, e.g. for object storage) or a more-or-less recoverable stream format ("tar").
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Re:Archive that can be reconstructed with total loss of file... by simcop2387 on Monday May 01, 2017 @02:36AM (#14235968)
In this case it'd be like losing the index of the tape, but still needing to recover data off it.
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