Cereberus Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 Is there any strategies to help counter bit rot ?To my understanding only filesystems like zfs or btrfs are capable of countering bitrot due to self healing and scrubbing of data to prevent it from happening.so for those of us still on either ntfs or ext4, is there someway to avoid this ?for now i merely just hash most of my important files so i can check from time to time if something goes corrupt. not sure what else i can do.would chkdsk do anything ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skunk1966 Posted September 23, 2015 Share Posted September 23, 2015 read this: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/helium/after reading check out the links under it; code is on Github Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cereberus Posted September 24, 2015 Author Share Posted September 24, 2015 doing more reading, i heard archiving your data into say winrar format or zip, you can avoid bit rot. not quite sure how the mechanism works, but it protects it from bitrot. but obviously not practical for hot data you tend to access alot especially. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skunk1966 Posted September 24, 2015 Share Posted September 24, 2015 doing more reading, i heard archiving your data into say winrar format or zip, you can avoid bit rot. not quite sure how the mechanism works, but it protects it from bitrot. but obviously not practical for hot data you tend to access alot especially.I'm curious about what you find out! :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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