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The article is about usage of xz for long term archival, so transport is not relevant, the concern seems to be bitrot and forward compatibility. Storage with i
by riffraff 4y ago
The article is about usage of xz for long term archival, so transport is not relevant, the concern seems to be bitrot and forward compatibility.
Storage with integrity checking would be the solution to bitrot, but TFA also seems concerned with "how do you unarchive/recover a random file you found?" which seems a somewhat valid concern.
And xz does have support for integrity checking, so it seems reasonable to have a discussion on whether that is a good support, rather than on whether it should be there at all.
- pmoriarty 4y ago> xz does have support for integrity checking Archives need not only a way to check their integrity but also error correction, which xz does not have. However, you can easily combine xz with par2, which does provide error correction.