On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:17:33PM -0700, Bart Smaalders wrote:

> I would validate the catalog only when it's extended...

Okay.  I wasn't sure.  If we wanted to validate against local corruption,
we could always take the hash of the catalog as it sat on disk and store
that, verifying that more frequently than we checked the signature.

> I am assuming that we would impose a synthetic order for manifest;
> catalogs would need to do the same.

And doing that infrequently makes that extra time and memory consumption
essentially irrelevant.

Danek
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