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Re: Opening .rar files
- From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno wolff to>
- To: Robin Laing <Robin Laing drdc-rddc gc ca>
- Cc: For users of Fedora <fedora-list redhat com>
- Subject: Re: Opening .rar files
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 11:59:37 -0500
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 13:19:40 -0600,
Robin Laing <Robin Laing drdc-rddc gc ca> wrote:
> True but rar will also create parity blocks to check and repair the
> split files.
I find it difficult to believe that this is the right place to introduce
redundancy. Including a hash with each part so that you can detect broken
ones is useful. Sending out multiple copies seems like a waste of bandwidth.
And if you really want to do this, wouldn't it be easier to just post them
multiple times?
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