[volunteergrid2-l] some error

[Billy Earney]

you are right, I didn't even think of the global affect..

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Christoph Langguth <
christoph at rosenkeller.org> wrote:

> Am 16.12.2011 21:59, schrieb Billy Earney:
>
>  When I upgraded, the first thing I did was a deep-check, and received
>> errors, so I downgraded to 1.8.3, and figured that was okay since I
>> didn't upload any files after I upgraded to 1.9.0.  I figure if you
>> haven't uploaded any files, it could be okay, but there might be issues
>> if you have uploaded files since upgrading to 1.9.0.  I'm not 100% about
>> this, so maybe someone like Zooko, should chime in?
>>
>>  I was more thinking of the server-side part, i.e. the "black box data"
> which is stored on my node on behalf of others. Like, if 1.9.0 uses a
> different format for holding indexes or such. Software usually handles data
> format "upgrades" quite well, but the opposite is almost never true. So the
> worst case I'm afraid of is: SW downgrade -> tahoe says "yeah, there sure
> is some data stored here, but I can't make sense of it" -> locally stored
> data lost/useless -> everybody having a chunk here has to repair their data.
>
> As said, that's the "worst-case scenario" which may very well not be the
> case -- I was just wondering about the possible "global" implications of a
> local downgrade.
>
> --Chris
>
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