Re: [Monotone-devel] Corruption Spreading Through Sync

2007-09-20 Thread Anthony Edward Cooper
Markus, Excellent, many thanks for that very informative reply. Thank you once again :-). Tony. Markus Schiltknecht wrote: Hello Anthony, Anthony Edward Cooper wrote: One question I was asked at work yesterday... What happens if a database gets corrupted due to an underlying har

Re: [Monotone-devel] Corruption Spreading Through Sync

2007-09-20 Thread Markus Schiltknecht
Hello Anthony, Anthony Edward Cooper wrote: 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

Re: [Monotone-devel] Corruption Spreading Through Sync

2007-09-20 Thread Bruce Stephens
Anthony Edward Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >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? And the signatures of all the certs, yes. The re

[Monotone-devel] Corruption Spreading Through Sync

2007-09-20 Thread Anthony Edward Cooper
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 jus