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End markers will help detect truncated files but not other kinds of brokenness, need checksums for those. Also, I think the config files for certain off the sh
by omoikane 4y ago
End markers will help detect truncated files but not other kinds of brokenness, need checksums for those.
Also, I think the config files for certain off the shelf network devices don't come with end markers or checksums, and might not be very good at handling corrupted configs. The usual practice is to push updates to a small fraction of those, then wait and see what happens before proceeding further.
- zamnos 4y agoUnfortunately even checksums won't help you if you mistakenly dredge up old but valid config. That doesn't mean they're not worth doing, but we don't know, due to a lack of detail, if Google already has checksums or if they would even have helped in this situation.