Re: git fsck not identifying corrupted packs

[Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>]

måndag 19 oktober 2009 21:27:48 skrev  Wesley J. Landaker:
> (Not CCing everyone, since this is mostly curiosa in the "using git as it
> was never intended" section):
>
> On Monday 19 October 2009 13:03:42 Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > Once a packfile is created and we always use it read-only, there didn't
> > seem to be much point in suspecting that the underlying filesystems or
> > disks may corrupt them in such a way that is not caught by the SHA-1
> > checksum over the entire packfile and per object checksum.  That trust in
> > the filesystems might have been a good tradeoff between fsck performance
> > and reliability on platforms git was initially developed on and for, but
> > it might not be true anymore as we run on more platforms these days.
>
> Filesystems are mostly reliable, but only until your crazy users do strange
> and terrible things. I have a real, non-toy environment where I use this
> stack as a [horrible] workaround for some issues beyond my control:
>
> git -> ext4 -> lvm -> dmcrypt -> loop -> sshfs -> cygwin sshd -> SMB share

The obvious follow up question here is: Why?

-- robin