On Wed, 25 Oct 2023 at 21:53, o1bigtenor <o1bigte...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hmmmmmmmmmm - - - - now how can I combine 'Hamming codes' > and a raid array? > > TIA
Normally you wouldn't. But let's say you're worried that a file might get randomly damaged. (I don't think single-bit errors are really a significant issue with mass storage, as you'd be more likely to have an entire sector unreadable, but this can certainly happen in transmission.) What you do is take a set of data bits, add an error correction code, and send them on their way. The more data bits per block, the more efficient, but if there are too many errors you will lose data. So there's a tradeoff. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
