From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Cc: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [JGIT PATCH 1/2] index-pack: Avoid disk corruption yielding a valid pack footer checksum
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:14:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080828001401.GT26523@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0808272007541.1624@xanadu.home>
Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> >
> > This was inspired by the data corruption thread started
> > by J. Bruce Fields. At some point in the thread Linus
> > pointed out the C Git index-pack isn't as safe as it can
> > be, and offered a strategy to fix it.
>
> I thought it was Nicolas Pitre who offered that strategy?
> Maybe I was mistaken. ;-)
Sorry about the bad attribution. Going back through the
archives does say it was you that had the brilliant idea.
Heh. Well at least my fuzzy memory of recent history is
only on the mailing list archives and not in a commit.
;-)
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-28 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-27 21:48 [JGIT PATCH 1/2] index-pack: Avoid disk corruption yielding a valid pack footer checksum Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-27 21:48 ` [JGIT PATCH 2/2] index-pack: Use fsync to ensure received pack data is on disk Shawn O. Pearce
2008-08-28 0:09 ` [JGIT PATCH 1/2] index-pack: Avoid disk corruption yielding a valid pack footer checksum Nicolas Pitre
2008-08-28 0:14 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2008-08-28 0:26 ` Nicolas Pitre
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