Re: [Duplicity-talk] zfec vs. par2 (and, hello there!) (was: Announcing Déjà Dup)

[zooko]

On Nov 3, 2008, at 15:09 PM, Peter Schuller wrote:

> I have not looked into zfec in detail yet, but the one downside  
> seems to be that (and please correct me if I am wrong), it cannot  
> be used to produce error correction data separate from the input data.

No, it can.  zfec documentation talks about "primary blocks" and  
"secondary blocks".  The "primary" ones are just the contents of the  
input data.

Regards,

Zooko
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