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Date:      Mon, 14 May 2001 22:55:34 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        David Xu <bsddiy@163.net>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, Mikhail Teterin <mi@misha.privatelabs.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, fs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: [kris@obsecurity.org: Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc]
Message-ID:  <20010514225533.M2009@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <1549608986.20010515121924@163.net>; from bsddiy@163.net on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:19:24PM %2B0800
References:  <200105132342.QAA21879@beastie.mckusick.com> <200105142334.QAA05923@usr06.primenet.com> <20010515115630.H59553@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010514193332.A85465@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010515120558.M59553@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010514202707.B93481@xor.obsecurity.org> <1549608986.20010515121924@163.net>

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* David Xu <bsddiy@163.net> [010514 21:14] wrote:
> 
> how about if your server application has already sent out corrupted
> data to your client? how to let your client application restart?
> client may have already committed a transaction according your
> corrupted price and goods have already been sent out to your customer,
> how do you let them back to your shop?

Assuming your database is a serious production quality system it will
implement its own style of data integrity and consistancy checking
on top of the filesystems in case it happens to crash.  It will use
this information to roll-back/fix any corrupted data it fetches.

Or at least halt itself and scream for help. :)

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org]
http://www.egr.unlv.edu/~slumos/on-netbsd.html

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