> From: David Magda [mailto:dma...@ee.ryerson.ca] > Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2011 9:04 AM > > If one is saving streams to a disk, it pay be worth creating parity files for them > (especially if the destination file system is not ZFS):
Parity is just a really simple form of error detection. It's not very useful for error correction. If you look into error correction codes, you'll see there are many other codes which would be more useful for the purposes of zfs send datastream integrity on long-term storage. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
