Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Fwd: Re: FreeBSD's requirements for its future VCS

[hendrik]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 12:42:39AM -0800, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> 
> The two big questions about obliteration are:
>   1) Do you want the data to simply be unavailable, or do you want to
>      remove every trace of its existence?  Approaches like yours that
>      leave the file hash in the manifest mean that even if the file
>      itself is gone, it is always cryptographically provable that it
>      _once_ was available.  Conceivably, you might be obliterating a
>      file to preserve trade secret protection or to otherwise protect
>      yourself legally, and leaving this kind of trail behind would be
>      bad.
>   2) How smooth does the obliteration process have to be?  Is it
>      acceptable if mirrors require manual intervention?  Is it
>      acceptable if workspaces have to manually recreated?
> 
> I would be curious to know what the FreeBSD folks's answers to these
> questions were.

It looks as if these questions are not specific to monotone, but 
inherent in any distributed system.  Except maybe if you have physical 
controm of all the repositories.

-- hendrik