On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Mark Diggory wrote: > I've never been impressed with the reasoning behind this addition to > DSpace, it mistakes bitstream security and file corruption as > something that should be tracked by the DSpace application. We
I agree, but with one caveat: > A real file integrity system should be implemented outside of the > application by an experienced system administrator vested in > maintaining the security and integrity of the system, not in the > application by a webapplication developer. I do value and respect the It is important to make sure that the file the web application put on disk is the same as the one still there. While various monitoring tools can check if files have changed on disk, at least at one stage should there be a verification of what the archive thinks the file's checksum is, and what's on disk. However, this is easily done outside the webapp. -- Tom De Mulder <[email protected]> - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 17/04/2009 : The Moon is Waning Gibbous (54% of Full) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
