On Friday 03 August 2007 16:03:22 Doron Cohen wrote: > What is the anticipated cause of corruption? Malicious? > Hardware fault? This somewhat reminds of discussions in > the list about encrypting the index. See LUCENE-737 > and a discussion pointed by it. One of the opinions > there was that encryption should be handled at a lower > level (OS/FS). Wouldn't that hold here as well?
That's actually a good point. These days we have filesystems like ZFS which check for corruption automatically. This should remove a lot of the extra digesting work people would otherwise need to do to ensure consistency. Daniel -- Daniel Noll Nuix Pty Ltd Suite 79, 89 Jones St, Ultimo NSW 2007, Australia Ph: +61 2 9280 0699 Web: http://nuix.com/ Fax: +61 2 9212 6902 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]