At 09:56 AM 1/14/2004, James M Galvin wrote:
I had several conversations with Steve Coya about it back then and
pushed very hard to get that version number incremented for the
tombstone file. It would be silly (if not shameful) to take a step
backwards now.
I'm not sure it is backwards. If it is deemed to solve a problem (not
obvious to me), it creates another.
I'd be happier bumping the number any time the file is changed, so that the
tombstone supercedes the removed file and a subsequent posting supercedes
the tombstone.
I am very concerned about the accumulation of tombstones forever, though.
If we don't want to accumulate draft versions forever, what makes
tombstones different? I would far rather age them out after some interval,
such as six months.