From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] thoughs about venti+fossil From: Charles Forsyth Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 10:46:15 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20080308093705.GB1386@nibiru.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 73bef5a6-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 as a purely intellectual problem =E2=80=94 how could we recover from or p= erhaps avoid this remarkably unlikely event if our data stream just happened to trigge= r it =E2=80=94 this is all very well. nevertheless, it still glosses over the hard fact= that it really is the least of your worries if you are building a real system using it: data corruption is far more likely to occur in the networks, for instance= , so if you really are building a system, you are wasting your time on this= aspect (except to the extent you come to see the point).