[Pasig-discuss] Risks of encryption & compression built into storage options?

[Illtud Daniel]

On 17/03/17 15:34, Neil Jefferies wrote:
> However, erasure coding only protects against certain failure modes and
> is critically dependent on metadata for fragment reassembly.

This. And your metadata layer may be proprietary and opaque, and
possibly require a particular version of a system to successfully
rebuild fragments. Roll on robust open-source implementations with
confidence-building distributed filesystem integrity checking,
but I'd be wary of adopting anything other than that.

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