Re: [parchive-devel] Par2 Par3 comments.

[Michael N. <mic...@gm...>]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 01:48:04PM -0400, Michael Nahas wrote:
> Re M. Niedermayer:
> 
> TAR on Windows: Windows users have PkZip or other tools that can aggregate
> files and preserve permissions.

that would make linux and windows par3 incompatible


> 
> 32-bit RS: You make good points.  I think the question comes down to our
> goals with Par3 and how easy it is to support more slices.  I think
> supporting more slices is better if we can do it well.  Hopefully, the

The question remains, if more slices are needed/usefull at all or if this
usefullness of more slices arrises out of par2s design of how to distribute
files on slices (and par3 has the same issue). And that
a different design would not benefit in the same way from more slices.
Also if there is a remaining use for more slices, the cost this larger number
of slices has, has to be considered

32bit RS has its costs, also RS codes allow error correction at the word
level not just at the slice level. A par3 spec should not use a code that
makes it impossible to implement such word level correction even if the
reference implementation does not support it.
Word level correction would allow to recover data that otherwise is lost


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> Unicode: Your comments appear to have been truncated after "2010".
> (Weird!)  Can you repeat them?

what i meant was
we have the year 2010, utf8 is so old i really think one can assume it
to be supported


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