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From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Cc: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>, Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: pack corruption post-mortem
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:17:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJo=hJugNGkpDxh6o6azVGc7pP3fTGsK113vRgb4A7ipNeV2ZA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.03.1310191024000.1951@syhkavp.arg>

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2013, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> > I was recently presented with a repository with a corrupted packfile,
>> > and was asked if the data was recoverable. This post-mortem describes
>> > the steps I took to investigate and fix the problem. I thought others
>> > might find the process interesting, and it might help somebody in the
>> > same situation.
>> >
>> > I started with an fsck, which found a problem with exactly one object
>> > (I've used $pack and $obj below to keep the output readable, and also
>> > because I'll refer to them later):
>> >
>> >     $ git fsck
>> >     error: $pack SHA1 checksum mismatch
>> >     error: index CRC mismatch for object $obj from $pack at offset 51653873
>> >     error: inflate: data stream error (incorrect data check)
>> >     error: cannot unpack $obj from $pack at offset 51653873
>>
>> I wonder if we should protect the sha-1 and pathname tables in packv4
>> with CRC too. A bit flipped in there could cause stream of corrupt
>> objects and make it hard to pinpoint the corrupt location..
>
> It turns out that we already have this covered.
>
> The SHA1 used in the name of the pack file is actually the SHA1 checksum
> of the SHA1 table.

I continue to believe this naming is wrong. The pack file name should
be the SHA1 checksum of the pack data stream, but the SHA1 table. This
would allow cleaner update of a repository that was repacked with
different compression settings, but identical objects.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-19 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-16  8:34 pack corruption post-mortem Jeff King
2013-10-16  8:59 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-10-16 15:41 ` Martin Fick
2013-10-17  0:35   ` Jeff King
2013-10-17 15:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-10-25  7:55       ` Jeff King
2013-10-17  1:06   ` Duy Nguyen
2013-10-19 10:32 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-10-19 14:41   ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-19 19:17     ` Shawn Pearce [this message]
2013-10-20 20:56       ` Nicolas Pitre
2013-10-20  4:44     ` Duy Nguyen
2013-10-20 21:08       ` Nicolas Pitre
2015-04-01 21:08 ` [PATCH] howto: document more tools for recovery corruption Jeff King
2015-04-01 22:21   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-04-02  0:49     ` Jeff King

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