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by jl6 814 days ago
That attack article puts forward a dubious scenario where parts of multiple copies of a file become corrupted in different locations and you need to recover the original using both of the damaged copies.

If you find that sort of thing happening to you a lot, then lzip might be the format for you. But I can’t say I’ve ever heard of that being a real recovery scenario.

A much saner approach to enabling recovery from corruption would be to keep external checksums and parity files.