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diff --git a/doc/future_proofing.mdwn b/doc/future_proofing.mdwn index d9a36ff73..4fc8246b6 100644 --- a/doc/future_proofing.mdwn +++ b/doc/future_proofing.mdwn @@ -25,3 +25,12 @@ problem: * What is the hardware interface of the drive? Will hardware still exist to talk to it? + +* What if some of the data is damaged? git-annex facilitates storing a + configurable number of [[copies]] of the file contents. The metadata + about your files is stored in git, and so every clone of the repository + means another copy of that is stored. Also, git-annex uses filenames + for the data that encode everything needed to match it back to the + metadata. So if a filesystem is badly corrupted and all your annexed + files end up in `lost+found`, they can easily be lifted back out into + another clone of the repository. |