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_gfwu on Sept 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images ...

As a total layman when it comes to storage: Don't they use forward correcting codes to make sure a single bad bit can reliably be detected and flipped without affecting the data at all? Or are these used only for data transmission?

d110af5ccf on Sept 25, 2022 [–]

The vast majority of file formats do not do such things. Such a concern is (typically) out of scope for that layer.

Even most data transmission components don't use forward correcting codes. They typically just have error detection.

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