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
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Mar 29, 2023, 07:20 AM
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