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Is there a filesystem that can maintain extra ECC data like raid5, but in the filesystem to make a fault-tolerant single external drive?

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Normally to make a fault-tolerant or corruption-repairing filesystem, you use multiple drives and raid 5, or anything but raid 0. There are also many ways to make a fault-tolerant archive file like dar etc. What I am looking for is a way to make a single external ssd safer against bitrot from extended unpowered storage, yet otherwise use the drive as a normal drive, just mount and read/write files when I want like any other filesystem. Merely "when I want" can sometimes be years apart. "normal" doesn't mean usable from Windows and Mac. Linux-only is ok.
Asked by Brian White (161 rep)
Mar 29, 2023, 07:20 AM
Last activity: Apr 15, 2024, 04:03 PM