diff --git a/include/aaruformat/consts.h b/include/aaruformat/consts.h
index 4151717..7874617 100644
--- a/include/aaruformat/consts.h
+++ b/include/aaruformat/consts.h
@@ -103,14 +103,17 @@
  *  Bit 0 = AARU_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ZSTD (Zstandard compression). */
 #define AARUF_KNOWN_INCOMPAT_FEATURES   0x1ULL
 /** Bitmask of all featureCompatibleRo bits understood by this library version.
- *  Currently no read-only-compatible features are defined. */
-#define AARUF_KNOWN_ROCOMPAT_FEATURES   0ULL
+ *  Bit 0 = AARU_FEATURE_ROCOMPAT_ERASURE (erasure coding parity data). */
+#define AARUF_KNOWN_ROCOMPAT_FEATURES   0x1ULL
 /** Bitmask of all featureCompatible bits understood by this library version.
  *  Bit 0 = AARU_FEATURE_RW_BLAKE3 (BLAKE3 checksums). */
 #define AARUF_KNOWN_COMPAT_FEATURES     0x1ULL
 /** Mask for extracting positional index (lower 24 bits) in Compact Disc suffix/prefix deduplicated block entries. */
 #define CD_DFIX_MASK 0x00FFFFFFU
 
+/** Magic number at the end of the recovery footer: "AVRECMFR" in ASCII little-endian. */
+#define AARU_RECOVERY_FOOTER_MAGIC 0x52464D4345525641ULL
+
 #ifndef _MSC_VER
 #pragma clang diagnostic pop
 #endif
diff --git a/include/aaruformat/enums.h b/include/aaruformat/enums.h
index 1f8e1f7..2b31329 100644
--- a/include/aaruformat/enums.h
+++ b/include/aaruformat/enums.h
@@ -148,6 +148,11 @@ typedef enum
     kDataTypeAacsMediaKey            = 101, ///< AACS Media Key
     kDataTypeAacsVolumeUniqueKey     = 102, ///< AACS Volume Unique Key
     kDataTypeBdSectorEdc             = 103, ///< Blu-ray Sector EDC
+    kDataTypeErasureParity           = 104, ///< Erasure coding parity shard for data blocks.
+    kDataTypeErasureParityDdt        = 105, ///< Erasure coding parity shard for DDT secondary blocks.
+    kDataTypeErasureParityDdtPrimary = 106, ///< Erasure coding parity replica for DDT primary block.
+    kDataTypeErasureParityMeta       = 107, ///< Erasure coding parity shard for metadata blocks.
+    kDataTypeErasureParityIndex      = 108, ///< Erasure coding parity replica for index block.
 } DataType;
 
 /**
@@ -178,7 +183,8 @@ typedef enum
     AaruMetadataJsonBlock        = 0x444D534A,  ///< Block containing JSON version of Aaru Metadata
     FluxDataBlock                = 0x58554C46,  ///< Block containing flux data metadata.
     DataStreamPayloadBlock =
-        0x4C505344  ///< Block containing compressed data stream payload (e.g., flux data, bitstreams).
+        0x4C505344,  ///< Block containing compressed data stream payload (e.g., flux data, bitstreams).
+    ErasureCodingMapBlock = 0x424D4345  ///< Block containing erasure coding stripe map and recovery metadata.
 } BlockType;
 
 /**
@@ -301,6 +307,41 @@ typedef enum
     AARU_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ZSTD = 0x1,  ///< Image contains Zstandard-compressed blocks.
 } FeaturesIncompatible;
 
+/**
+ * @brief Read-only compatible feature flags for AaruHeader V2.
+ *
+ * If any bit in featureCompatibleRo is not understood by a reader, the image
+ * SHOULD be opened read-only (the reader cannot safely modify the data without
+ * understanding these features).
+ */
+typedef enum
+{
+    AARU_FEATURE_ROCOMPAT_ERASURE = 0x1,  ///< Image contains erasure coding parity blocks and recovery metadata.
+} FeaturesCompatibleRo;
+
+/**
+ * \enum ErasureCodingAlgorithm
+ * \brief Erasure coding algorithms supported by the ECMB.
+ */
+typedef enum
+{
+    kErasureCodingXor          = 0,  ///< Simple XOR parity (M must be 1).
+    kErasureCodingRsVandermonde = 1   ///< Reed-Solomon with Vandermonde generator matrix over GF(2^8).
+} ErasureCodingAlgorithm;
+
+/**
+ * \enum ErasureCodingGroupType
+ * \brief Identifies which protection group a stripe belongs to.
+ */
+typedef enum
+{
+    kECGroupData       = 0,  ///< User data blocks (DBLK).
+    kECGroupDdtSecondary = 1, ///< Secondary DDT subtables.
+    kECGroupDdtPrimary  = 2,  ///< Primary DDT (K=1, M replicas).
+    kECGroupMetadata    = 3,  ///< Metadata/media tag blocks.
+    kECGroupIndex       = 4   ///< Index block (K=1, M replicas).
+} ErasureCodingGroupType;
+
 #ifndef _MSC_VER
 #pragma clang diagnostic pop
 #endif