bef – a tool that encodes/decodes interleaved erasure coded streams
Block Erasure Format - An extensible, fast, and usable file utility to encode and decode interleaved erasure coded streams of data. - gbletr42/bef
bef – a tool that encodes/decodes interleaved erasure coded streams launched on March 9, 2024 with 59 votes, #996 of 4,270 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Bef is a command-line tool that encodes and decodes interleaved erasure coded streams. It is designed for developers and system administrators who need to manage data redundancy and recovery. The tool uses erasure coding techniques to split data into encoded fragments that can tolerate the loss of some pieces while still recovering the original information, making it useful for distributed storage and fault-tolerant systems.
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