On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:48:27PM +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On Friday 22 November 2002 11:01, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> 
> > > If there is one flipped bit (read error), everything compressed with gzip
> > > after that position is lost. With HW compression you can continue
> > > restoring after that position plus some overhead.

IIRC the "b" in bzip2 stands for "block".

Does that compression utility have the ability to resync
at some kind of block boundries?

Or any compression utility for that matter.

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