måndag 19 oktober 2009 21:27:48 skrev Wesley J. Landaker: > (Not CCing everyone, since this is mostly curiosa in the "using git as it > was never intended" section): > > On Monday 19 October 2009 13:03:42 Junio C Hamano wrote: > > Once a packfile is created and we always use it read-only, there didn't > > seem to be much point in suspecting that the underlying filesystems or > > disks may corrupt them in such a way that is not caught by the SHA-1 > > checksum over the entire packfile and per object checksum. That trust in > > the filesystems might have been a good tradeoff between fsck performance > > and reliability on platforms git was initially developed on and for, but > > it might not be true anymore as we run on more platforms these days. > > Filesystems are mostly reliable, but only until your crazy users do strange > and terrible things. I have a real, non-toy environment where I use this > stack as a [horrible] workaround for some issues beyond my control: > > git -> ext4 -> lvm -> dmcrypt -> loop -> sshfs -> cygwin sshd -> SMB share The obvious follow up question here is: Why? -- robin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html