On: Reed-Solomon error-correcting code decoder

[anomie31]

A good example of this being implemented is in parchives. Parchives were originally made as a way to recover from errors on unreliable usenet servers, but now I think they are mostly used for bitrot recovery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive

[blue1 → anomie31]

I wonder why this kind of thing is not implemented transparently at the filesystem level.

[bartvk → blue1]

Yup. I manually use par2 for my family photos on my Mac and it's a bit of a hassle.

[zokier → blue1]

That's what raid5/raidz basically is.

[blue1 → zokier]

but RAID by definition involves multiple supports. So it is not very practical for long term archiving.