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[Monotone-devel] Re: Hash collisions resiliency
From: |
Frank Ch. Eigler |
Subject: |
[Monotone-devel] Re: Hash collisions resiliency |
Date: |
15 Apr 2005 10:30:02 -0400 |
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Nathaniel Smith <address@hidden> writes:
> > [...] Create a specially crippled version of
> > monotone, which uses (say) only 12-bit hashes. Run whatever test
> > suite you can, a bunch of times. See what blows up. [...]
>
> This is kinda a silly idea? What will blow up is that at netsync
> time, monotone will simply not realize that it is missing some data,
> and silently replace the data it is supposed to fetch with data it
> already has. There's no practical consistency check against this.
> [...]
Then perhaps the test suite could use a few additions, such as
explicit byte-wise comparisons of expected vs. actual stored files.
Instead of asserting that monotone return codes are zero, actually
archive and compare large bodies of text before/after version control
operations. That is the primary observable from a user's point of
view anyway.
- FChE
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, Jon Bright, 2005/04/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, J C Lawrence, 2005/04/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, Jon Bright, 2005/04/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, J C Lawrence, 2005/04/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, Nathan Myers, 2005/04/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, tekHedd, 2005/04/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, Nathan Myers, 2005/04/14
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/04/14
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Hash collisions resiliency, Frank Ch. Eigler, 2005/04/14
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Hash collisions resiliency, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/04/15
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Hash collisions resiliency,
Frank Ch. Eigler <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Hash collisions resiliency, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/04/16
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, tekHedd, 2005/04/14
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/04/14
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, Jon Bright, 2005/04/14
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, J C Lawrence, 2005/04/14
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, Jon Bright, 2005/04/14
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Hash collisions resiliency, Frank Ch. Eigler, 2005/04/14
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, tekHedd, 2005/04/14
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Hash collisions resiliency, Jon Bright, 2005/04/15
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Hash collisions resiliency, Peter Simons, 2005/04/15