Re: Is there a Git repository of RFCs? Or of Internet-Drafts?

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On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 7:08 PM, Christopher Morrow
> <morrowc.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [....]
>>>
>>> What I mean is that if there is disk corruption on the server hosting
>>> the drafts (which can happen post write), rsync will happily send the
>>> checksum of the corrupted draft. Git's mechanism makes such a
>>> probability infinitesimal.
>>
>> wait, so.. if the disk fails things go bad... I'm confused.
>>
>
> If the disk goes bad so as to provoke a misread of a sector, post
> write, the file is effectively corrupted. If this happens with git,
> the checksum calculated on write will fail to match, and the
> corruption is detected.
>

you seem to be protecting against a very, very, very uncommon failure...
I think you'd be better off protecting against a host of much more
common failure modes, eh?


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