[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #970: webapi PUT via multiple nodes can cause directory corruption but does not report UncoordinatedWriteError

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#970: webapi PUT via multiple nodes can cause directory corruption but does not
report UncoordinatedWriteError
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 Reporter:  stott              |           Owner:  nobody   
     Type:  defect             |          Status:  new      
 Priority:  minor              |       Milestone:  undecided
Component:  code-frontend-web  |         Version:  1.5.0    
 Keywords:  error usability    |   Launchpad_bug:           
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Comment(by zooko):

 Careful here -- the ''only'' safe solution is to coordinate writes. Having
 different encoding parameters such as a smaller {{{k}}} may reduce the
 amount of damage to your data when an uncoordinated write is encountered
 (or it may not -- I vaguely recall that the reasoning about that was
 surprisingly subtle), but one shouldn't rely on that to protect one's
 data.

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Ticket URL: <http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/ticket/970#comment:3>
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