From 09d807100b58769ee24548de14667f618ed6c34b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:55:44 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] devblog --- doc/devblog/day_201__chunky.mdwn | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/devblog/day_201__chunky.mdwn diff --git a/doc/devblog/day_201__chunky.mdwn b/doc/devblog/day_201__chunky.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b210702a46 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/devblog/day_201__chunky.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +Working on designs for better [[chunking|design/assistant/chunks]]. Having +a hard time finding a way to totally obscure file sizes, but otherwise a +good design seems to be coming together. I particularly like that the new +design puts the chunk count in the Key (which is then encrypted for special +remotes, rather than having it be some special extension. + +While thinking through chunking, I realized that the current chunking +method can fail if two repositories have different chunksize settings for +the same special remote and both upload the same key at the same time. +Arn't races fun? The new design will eliminate this problem; in the +meantime updated the docs to recommend never changing a remote's +chunksize setting.