I got into an argument with a colleague about RAID levels (specifically RAID5) and whether the redundancy was accomplished through parity or ECC. The standard sources all refer to the RAID5 array ...

An error detection technique that tests the integrity of digital data in the computer. Parity checking adds an extra parity cell to each 8-bit byte of memory, thus ...

An error condition that occurs when the parity bit of a character is found to be incorrect. See parity checking. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

Abstract: The disclosed parity stripping technique quickly and efficiently converts a multi-byte input stream having parity bits to an output data stream that contains the same data as the input ...

I should add, I'm aware that there are (several) filesystems that do ECC/checksumming, but I'm really more interested in something that can store parity data in standard files. This seems to me to be ...