I don't usually go back and test my burnt DVDs, except when I need to get data off of them, which is not very often. I'm afraid my archiving and testing are not very systematic. Admittedly it is hosted on the lzip site, but overall the article comes across as an opinionated hit-piece designed to sow doubt in a competitor. The article is written by the author of lzip (which it compares favorably to xz), but does not disclose this. Is my normality detector off today or is this just a wacky thing to want to do?ĥ. By claiming that xz is "telling you what you can't do with your files", it seems that the author considers it perfectly reasonable to append arbitrary data to the end of a file and expect it to continue functioning. The section on trailing data is particularly bizarre. Archives professionals (as in, people who are actually employed by memory institutions) will tell you of many factors (all unmentioned here) that have a bearing on whether a file format (particularly a compressed one) is suitable for use in data preservation.Ĥ. It's not clear what the author means by "long-term archiving". No, it was chosen because of its favorable size/speed tradeoffs.ģ. The article claims xz was chosen by prominent open source projects due to hype. If you want to recover from errors, generate parity files using par2 or zfec.Ģ. If you want to check integrity, use a hashing tool such as sha256sum. Well, xz is for compression, nothing else. The article itself recommends that "a tool is supposed to do one thing and do it well". This article is overblown in its criticisms and has some issues of its own.ġ. Please mail webmaster (at) linux-india (dot) org if you can help with more languages.OK, I'll bite. Soliciting greetings for this page in Indian languages. The only tools you need are this browser, your mouse and your keyboard. Please create an account and edit your personal page to get a feel of what can be done with this site.
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