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

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There  are consumer grade devices, where this is the most common failure mode. But usually a glitch in a video stream where these disks are typically used, isn't as critical as corrupting your bank account content (say, to the state prior to when you got your salary) :)

(And that consumer grade devices usually never get a bug fix to address that).

Richard Scheffenegger


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Christopher Morrow
> Sent: Freitag, 15. März 2013 19:27
> To: Francis Galiegue
> Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Is there a Git repository of RFCs? Or of Internet-Drafts?
> 
> 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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