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From: | Anthony Edward Cooper |
Subject: | [Monotone-devel] Corruption Spreading Through Sync |
Date: | Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:11:33 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) |
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.
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