From a15348066792d6013593d729db060ea35bacbf15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:22:32 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] comments --- ..._ff49a65d4adaff3cf3902c2850227ea2._comment | 16 +++++++++++++++ ..._058f521451ff38d2072af6c944143ab1._comment | 20 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/How_to_handle_cold_storage__63__/comment_1_ff49a65d4adaff3cf3902c2850227ea2._comment create mode 100644 doc/todo/do_not_count_trusted_repos_toward_mincopies/comment_2_058f521451ff38d2072af6c944143ab1._comment diff --git a/doc/forum/How_to_handle_cold_storage__63__/comment_1_ff49a65d4adaff3cf3902c2850227ea2._comment b/doc/forum/How_to_handle_cold_storage__63__/comment_1_ff49a65d4adaff3cf3902c2850227ea2._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2c054ba4af --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/How_to_handle_cold_storage__63__/comment_1_ff49a65d4adaff3cf3902c2850227ea2._comment @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 1""" + date="2022-06-28T16:08:38Z" + content=""" +This is what [[todo/do_not_count_trusted_repos_toward_mincopies]] is kind +of about; setting a repo to trusted right now is a promise that you won't +delete data from it, or will be careful when you do to sync that fact to +everywhere. If that todo got implemented, you could set all the offline +drives to trusted and git-annex drop would only need to verify 1 copy is +present on an online drive. + +What I do right now is use trusted for cold storage and never drop +anything from it except in cases where I want to get rid of all copies of +some file. +"""]] diff --git a/doc/todo/do_not_count_trusted_repos_toward_mincopies/comment_2_058f521451ff38d2072af6c944143ab1._comment b/doc/todo/do_not_count_trusted_repos_toward_mincopies/comment_2_058f521451ff38d2072af6c944143ab1._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b2d25c6abd --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/do_not_count_trusted_repos_toward_mincopies/comment_2_058f521451ff38d2072af6c944143ab1._comment @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="joey" + subject="""comment 2""" + date="2022-06-28T16:13:05Z" + content=""" +Perhaps it would be better to leave trusted working as it does now, and +introduce a new intermediate trust level. It could be called eg, "offline". + +An offline repo would count toward numcopies when not available, but +would only count toward mincopies if it happened to be available at the +time. + +It might then be that there's no real need for the less safe trusted, +and users could be polled and it deprecated if so. + +(This might also be a good opportunity to improve the "semitrust" name, +which would not make much sense if the list was untrust, semitrust, +offline, trust. "normal" perhaps. Would need to still accept the old name +for back-compat of course.) +"""]]