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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-09-11 14:50:18 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2014-09-11 14:50:18 -0400 |
| commit | 647feed2d73a80c516c9b4bba29d6647c2af2f94 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b39e2c399a083976d8d470a6c84fa571772e81e /doc | |
| parent | 870f2cd10cecd61bbf9ff8c0f229bcb63b5b2a31 (diff) | |
WORM backend: Switched to include the relative path to the file inside the repository, rather than just the file's base name. Note that if you're relying on such things to keep files separate with WORM, you should really be using a better backend.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/backends.mdwn | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/Possible_data-loss_if_WORM_keys_do_not_encode_relative_paths.mdwn | 1 |
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/backends.mdwn b/doc/backends.mdwn index baa96c149..06475adfb 100644 --- a/doc/backends.mdwn +++ b/doc/backends.mdwn @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ can use different ones for different files. * `SHA256` -- Does not include the file extension in the key, which can lead to better deduplication but can confuse some programs. * `WORM` ("Write Once, Read Many") This assumes that any file with - the same basename, size, and modification time has the same content. + the same filename, size, and modification time has the same content. This is the least expensive backend, recommended for really large files or slow systems. * `SHA512`, `SHA512E` -- Best SHA-2 hash, for the very paranoid. diff --git a/doc/bugs/Possible_data-loss_if_WORM_keys_do_not_encode_relative_paths.mdwn b/doc/bugs/Possible_data-loss_if_WORM_keys_do_not_encode_relative_paths.mdwn index 2b3cf3f2f..716c76f6c 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/Possible_data-loss_if_WORM_keys_do_not_encode_relative_paths.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/Possible_data-loss_if_WORM_keys_do_not_encode_relative_paths.mdwn @@ -21,3 +21,4 @@ Instead of just using the basename, WORM keys could be kept stable by using the relative path and anchoring it to the root of the repository. +> [[fixed|done]] --[[Joey]] |