[Monotone-devel] Corruption Spreading Through Sync

[Anthony Edward Cooper]

   Hi again,

   One question I was asked at work yesterday... What happens if a 
database gets corrupted due to an underlying hardware failure and the 
user, not knowing this, syncs his database? Not such a stupid question 
as I have had situations where drivers don't report disk errors, you 
just get weird behaviour (e.g. IDE disks under Solaris). We are not 
bothered about the one corrupted database - just that corruption spreading.

   Am I correct in assuming that the either one party or both involved 
with the sync exchange checks the data being received/sent. Say by 
rechecking the hashes on all data transferred?

   Many thanks in advance.

   Cheers,

   Tony Cooper.