Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Sanity checking

[Nathan Myers]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:25:01PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> 
> Or is there some repeated sanity checking which wouldn't be too hard
> to remove?  (A timestamp of the last time a paranoid monotone
> successfully ran on a repository, or something?)  That wouldn't help
> the initial experience of pulling from a big repository (although I
> guess you could have the sending repository give an assurance of
> sanity, if you could believe it).

These both sound like really good ideas.  (I would say "sequence number"
instead of "timestamp".)  An option to say you trust (or mistrust) a 
remote repository's assurances about the sanity of its database is very 
different from one that simply turns off checking, but the effect on 
runtime is the same.

Another way to reduce the amount of sanity-checking needed would be to 
identify incremental subsets of the database that can be marked as
already-checked, individually, and then then only recheck the parts
that changed since last time.  

Nathan Myers
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