[Coco] Rainbow on disk RAID

[Brian Goers]

On 2/17/2015 2:16 PM, John Guin wrote:
So what is BOINC?
A search of acronyms did not give me a answer.


>
> With today's hardware, even if there were billions of possible sectors, I can't see that presenting
>too much of a challenge.  Heck, now that I think about it, this could be a project for BOINC or similar
> - "Help try combinations of values to restore old floppy media for legacy computers."
>
> Of course, validation correctness would be a problem.
>
> John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Melanie and John Mark Mobley
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 11:36 AM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: [Coco] Rainbow on disk RAID
>
> Key
> RoD (Rainbow on Disk)
> RADE (Redundant Array of Independent disks)
>
> Error recover of RoD.
>
> RoD RADE => If we had 3 copies of each disk then we could select the sectors that match 2 out of 3 or 3 out of 3 and recover any errors.
> If 2 out of 3 sectors match then use one of the  matching sectors.
>
> Then we can recover from disk errors.  There is hope that we can preserve this information even if the disk are starting to fail, but we need to act soon.
>
> John Mark Mobley
>
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