[rescue] ZFS Merkle trees/git graph integrity - Re: Has freshmeat.net disappeared forever?

[Toby Thain]

On 24/06/14 8:51 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 06/24/14 19:31, Toby Thain wrote:
>> On 24/06/14 6:08 PM, PAK wrote:
>>> ...
>>> Another reason for people on this list to consider git--git history is
>>> essentially a cryptographic composed graph.  Git has exposed defficient
>>> developer hardware (where RAM or disks would lose a bit every so often).
>>
>> FWIW, ZFS has the same property and the same habit of exposing hardware
>> faults that are hidden by filesystems that don't have integrity checks.
>
> See "RAID5 write hole".
>
>

Or any quietly out of sync RAID-1.

--Toby