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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Sanity checking
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Logan Sackette |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Sanity checking |
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Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:01:22 -0700 (PDT) |
Excuse my ignorance. Are the sanity checks there
because Monotone uses an embedded SQL server (SQLite)
instead of a external SQL server (MySQL/PostgreSQL)?
Thanks.
.v
--- Nathan Myers <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:25:01PM +0100, Bruce
> Stephens wrote:
> >
> > Or is there some repeated sanity checking which
> wouldn't be too hard
> > to remove? (A timestamp of the last time a
> paranoid monotone
> > successfully ran on a repository, or something?)
> That wouldn't help
> > the initial experience of pulling from a big
> repository (although I
> > guess you could have the sending repository give
> an assurance of
> > sanity, if you could believe it).
>
> These both sound like really good ideas. (I would
> say "sequence number"
> instead of "timestamp".) An option to say you trust
> (or mistrust) a
> remote repository's assurances about the sanity of
> its database is very
> different from one that simply turns off checking,
> but the effect on
> runtime is the same.
>
> Another way to reduce the amount of sanity-checking
> needed would be to
> identify incremental subsets of the database that
> can be marked as
> already-checked, individually, and then then only
> recheck the parts
> that changed since last time.
>
> Nathan Myers
> address@hidden
>
>
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