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RE: Is there a Git repository of RFCs? Or of Internet-Drafts?

2013-03-15 17:43:58
There  are consumer grade devices, where this is the most common failure mode. 
But usually a glitch in a video stream where these disks are typically used, 
isn't as critical as corrupting your bank account content (say, to the state 
prior to when you got your salary) :)

(And that consumer grade devices usually never get a bug fix to address that).

Richard Scheffenegger


-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org 
[mailto:ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On Behalf Of
Christopher Morrow
Sent: Freitag, 15. März 2013 19:27
To: Francis Galiegue
Cc: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Is there a Git repository of RFCs? Or of Internet-Drafts?

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Francis Galiegue 
<fgaliegue(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
wrote:
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Christopher Morrow
<morrowc(_dot_)lists(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
[....]

What I mean is that if there is disk corruption on the server
hosting the drafts (which can happen post write), rsync will happily
send the checksum of the corrupted draft. Git's mechanism makes such
a probability infinitesimal.

wait, so.. if the disk fails things go bad... I'm confused.


If the disk goes bad so as to provoke a misread of a sector, post
write, the file is effectively corrupted. If this happens with git,
the checksum calculated on write will fail to match, and the
corruption is detected.


you seem to be protecting against a very, very, very uncommon failure...
I think you'd be better off protecting against a host of much more common
failure modes, eh?

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