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Linus is a little behind the times with this comment: ``Other SCM's have used things like CRC's for error detection, although honestly the most common error ha
by luckydude 10y ago
Linus is a little behind the times with this comment:
``Other SCM's have used things like CRC's for error detection, although honestly the most common error handling method in most SCM's tends to be "tough luck, maybe your data is there, maybe it isn't, I don't care".''
BitKeeper has an error detection (CRC per block) and error correction (XOR block at the end) system. Any single block loss is correctable. Block sizes vary with file size so large files have to lose a large amount of data to be non-correctable.