[vcf-midatlantic] several things

[Jonathan Sturges]

>  I would augment that by making it a *set* of drives, stored in a
> block-checksumming filesystem like ZFS, and treat the set of drives as a
> unit.  ZFS filesystems in particular can be "imported" and "exported"
> to/from a system as a unit, making this convenient.

Dave, totally agree with you on both the bit error rate issue as well as this recommendation.  ZFS' importing/exporting capability has always been a favorite of mine.  Question, which ZFS implementations do you use and trust these days?

>  I've noticed a decrease in M-DISC availability lately.  Do you have
> any idea of what's going on with that?  

Thanks for the heads-up about M-Discs, I wasn't aware of their status.  I too have an LG drive that supports them but have never really used them.  Microcenter has always sold them, though not in great quantity or anything, but at least it's a bricks-and-mortar option:
https://www.microcenter.com/product/452157/verbatim-m-disc-dvdr-4x-47-gb-120-minute-disc-5-pack-jewel-case

Happy New Year!
-Jonathan