On Tuesday 20 October 2009 09:41:50 Robin Rosenberg wrote: > 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): [...] > > 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 My main point was to illustrate that having "git fsck" do a REALLY GOOD CHECK is still desirable, as we still haven't reached the days of file- system utopia where nothing ever gets corrupted (even with a smaller, simpler stack). The actual application where I use this stack is because of odd requirements and circumstances like data must be physically stored on a particular Windows server on the network that uses a weird authentication method that samba doesn't support, and it has to go over the network encrypted anyway, there are lots of holes in the data, so I want ext4 for the extent support, file-size limitations on the target, etc. It's a really an exotic love-hate mix between an off-by-one-please-no-never- again kind of situation coupled with a bit of "because I can". > The obvious follow up question here is: Why? If you are both nerdy and morbidly curious enough to care, send me a "but, no ... really, WHY?!" with the git list CC dropped and we can talk about details and/or other crazy stuff. (I don't want to get wildly off-topic on this list.) -- 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