About:
zfec is a fast, portable, and programmable implementation of erasure coding. It includes a C library, a Python library, and a command-line tool. Erasure coding is also known as "forward error correction", which is the generation of redundant blocks of information such that if some blocks are lost then the original data can be recovered from the remaining blocks. The RAID-5 algorithm is an erasure code, but while RAID-5 can recover from the loss of any one element, zfec can be parameterized to choose in advance the number of elements whose loss it can tolerate.

Author:
zooko [contact developer]

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Homepage:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zfec

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		4 - Beta
[Intended Audience]		Advanced End Users, Developers, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		Microsoft :: Windows, POSIX
[Programming Language]		C, Python
[Topic]		Communications :: File Sharing, Communications :: Usenet News, System :: Archiving :: Backup

Dependencies: [change]
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 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.0.4	20-Sep-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] Build / install instructions?
by zambono - Jun 4th 2007 00:56:53

Not being a python guy, I'm not having quick luck getting this tool to run.

Any quick help? Thx

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[»] Re: Build / install instructions?
by zooko - Jun 4th 2007 05:11:08

The current release, 1.0.1, has build/install instructions in the README.

http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/zfec

I am now trying to figure out how to change the URLs on this freshmeat page to point to the current version.

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