New upstream version 0.79.6
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Carlos Maddela
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<span class="fxxl"><b>dvdisaster</b> </span>
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<i>Version 0.79.5</i>
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<i>Version 0.79.5 (stable) / 0.79.6 (unstable)</i>
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<span class="fxxl"> </span>
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<td>Current version: </td>
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<td>Current stable version: </td>
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<td><a href="../downloads/dvdisaster-0.79.5.tar.bz2">dvdisaster-0.79.5.tar.bz2</a></td>
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<td>(<a href="../downloads/dvdisaster-0.79.5.tar.bz2.gpg">digital signature</a>,
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MD5 checksum: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)</td>
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<td>Previous (older) version:</td>
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<td><a href="../downloads/dvdisaster-0.72.6.tar.bz2">dvdisaster-0.72.6.tar.bz2</a></td>
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<td>(<a href="../downloads/dvdisaster-0.72.6.tar.bz2.gpg">digital signature</a>,
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MD5 checksum: f4213af05fe5c36e93bdf8a1732a66d1)</td>
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MD5 sum: ceef990a2239c43314bc6427c6afb181)</td>
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</table>
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<p>
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@@ -94,87 +88,35 @@ verification that the packages are in their original state. The archives
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contain a file <tt>INSTALL</tt> with further instructions for building dvdisaster.
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<p>
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OS X and Windows are no longer supported.
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The <a href="misc.html#windows">last published version for Windows (0.72.3)</a> is still available.
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<b>Windows</b> and <b>Mac OS</b> are no longer supported. A native Windows fork
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of dvdisaster will be started soon by another developer, but there is nothing to announce yet.
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In the mean time, please continue using
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the <a href="misc.html#windows">last published version for Windows (0.72.3)</a>.
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<p>
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<b>The developer versions are back!</b><p>
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The original plan of publishing stable versions every few months did not work out due to continued lack of time. In the mean time, developer (unstable) versions are published whenever the need arises for a current update. Please be aware that developer versions are undocumented and may contain unfinished or otherwise defective functionality. You should only use them if you need some of the features detailed in the list below.<p>
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<a href="../downloads/dvdisaster-0.79.6.tar.bz2">dvdisaster-0.79.6.tar.bz2</a></td>
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<td>(<a href="../downloads/dvdisaster-0.79.6.tar.bz2.gpg">digital signature</a>,
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MD5 sum: ceef990a2239c43314bc6427c6afb181)
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<ul>
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<li> The "medium info" tool will now correctly show the blank capacity (was previously always shown as zero)</li>
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<li> added support for BDXL-TL (triple layer, 100GB) media</li>
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<li> Sector CRC sums and the image MD5 sums are collected during
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reading the medium and can be re-used by the ecc data creation
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process. Speeds up ecc generation and enables RS03 image
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checksums when generating ecc data was preceeded by a read.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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<b>What happened to the old dvdisaster site?</b><p>
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To quote from the preface of the <a href="misc.html#manual">user manual</a>:<p>
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Please see the <i>Preface for version 0.79.5</i> in the <a href="misc.html#manual">user manual</a>.
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Since the release of dvdisaster 0.79.3 (version 0.79.4 was
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never finished and released), nearly five years have passed.
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This was partly due to changed circumstances in its
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primary developer's life, but there was also a lot of
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coding going on behind the scenes. In comparison with its
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predecessor, dvdisaster 0.79.5 comes with lots of its
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internals being significantly reworked. <p>
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The most visible improvement of dvdisaster 0.79.5 is, of
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course, its multithreaded RS03 codec. While it takes
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about 62 minutes for protecting a 36 GiB image with RS02
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on a mid range PC,
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the same task is done with RS03 in less than 7 minutes
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using 6 processor cores on the same machine.
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On a high end server with at least 16 cores and very good I/O,
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this can be done in under a minute. That's quite an
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improvement.<br>
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RS03 is ready for production use in the current release.
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Some non-essential features, especially reworking the
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adaptive reading for use with RS03 and multi-threaded
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RS03 decoding (media fixing) will be delivered with
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the following dvdisaster releases.<p>
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Other parts of the project had to be changed or even
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discontinued. A software project lives on development
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and continuous releases; else the
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project will eventually die. In this respect, dvdisaster
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was very endangered in the last few years.
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To prevent this from happening again, most effort
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is now directed into source code development;
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everything else is delegated or discontinued.
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Source code development basically means making
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the GNU/Linux version, which provides the code base
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for all other versions, and the FreeBSD and NetBSD ports,
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which are very easily derived from the GNU/Linux code.
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This is not the case for the Mac OS and Windows ports,
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which are, unfortunately, discontinued as of now.<br>
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Another feature which has to go are the separate
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stable and development releases.
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Starting with this version, all dvdisaster releases
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are considered production quality, so there is no
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need for different branches anymore.<p>
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Maintaining the multi-lingual online documentation, which
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also served as the project home page, did also prove to
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be too time consuming. The project home page has
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been changed into a simple download platform for
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the project sources. It is now directed at package
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maintainers who will create and pass on binaries
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for the GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD distributions.<br>
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The program documentation, which you are reading
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right now, is provided in PDF format which is much
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easier to author than the HTML version. The only
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language available is English. Most parts of this
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manual have been adapted from the old online
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documentation, so it still feels more like a website
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than a book. While hyperlinks are not as usable in PDF
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as in HTML, they have been kept in this document to
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stress that it is intended to be used as an online reference.
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So please do our environment a favour and do not print
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this manual. It is not meant to be read
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from front cover to back cover, anyways.<p>
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Okay, enough ranting already. May dvdisaster be helpful
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in protecting and recovering your valuable data,
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and thanks for using it!<p>
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<i> -- cg, August 2015</i>
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<i> Copyright 2004-2015 Carsten Gnörlich.<br>
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<i> Copyright 2004-2017 Carsten Gnörlich.<br>
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Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.
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