From: zooko Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:38:27 +0000 (+0530) Subject: docs: recommend 7z X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/components/%22news.html/simplejson?a=commitdiff_plain;h=216919809ac5ca684b60a0473aeda5303b56c999;p=tahoe-lafs%2Fzfec.git docs: recommend 7z Ignore-this: db6eb40fd019f183cfb4ea9643300482 darcs-hash:b6479ebd924e8001195c0ed233b0c5ec39c5d5a8 --- diff --git a/zfec/README.txt b/zfec/README.txt index e34eee2..deb3f7b 100644 --- a/zfec/README.txt +++ b/zfec/README.txt @@ -105,15 +105,16 @@ input to the encoding step. The bin/ directory contains two Unix-style, command-line tools "zfec" and "zunfec". Execute "zfec --help" or "zunfec --help" for usage instructions. -Note: a Unix-style tool like "zfec" does only one thing -- in this case -erasure coding -- and leaves other tasks to other tools. Other Unix-style -tools that go well with zfec include "GNU tar" for archiving multiple files -and directories into one file, "rzip" or "lrzip" for compression, and "GNU -Privacy Guard" for encryption or "sha256sum" for integrity. It is important -to do things in order: first archive, then compress, then either encrypt or -sha256sum, then erasure code. Note that if GNU Privacy Guard is used for -privacy, then it will also ensure integrity, so the use of sha256sum is -unnecessary in that case. +Note: a Unix-style tool like "zfec" does only one thing -- in this case erasure +coding -- and leaves other tasks to other tools. Other Unix-style tools that go +well with zfec include "GNU tar" or "7z" a.k.a. "p7zip" for archiving multiple +files and directories into one file, "7z" or "rzip" for compression, and "GNU Privacy +Guard" for encryption or "sha256sum" for integrity. It is important to do +things in order: first archive, then compress, then either encrypt or sha256sum, +then erasure code. Note that if GNU Privacy Guard is used for privacy, then it +will also ensure integrity, so the use of sha256sum is unnecessary in that case. +Note that if 7z is used for archiving then it also does compression, so you +don't need a separate compressor in that case. * Performance Measurements