Re: Compression and dictionaries

From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: 2006-08-15 03:50:31
David Lang wrote:
> that would only tell you that what you have is garbage (and you need to 
> restore from backup(, useing a ECC costs some space, but lets you 
> recover from some errors without having to resort to backups.

ECC permits you to recover from very specific, very-limited-damage 
scenarios like bit errors.

On modern hard drives, single-bit data corruption is very very very rare 
(particularly since ECC is already employed on the platter).

	Jeff


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