Update README.md to include block corruption risk caveat #7
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From [your comment on the Hyperspace thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43179652): > There is one huge caveat I should add to the README - block corruption happens. Having a second copy of a file is a crude form of backup. Cloning causes all instances to use the same block, so if that one instance is corrupted, all clones are. That’s fine for software projects with generated files that can be rebuilt or checked out again, but introduces some risk for files that may not otherwise be replaceable. I keep multiple backups of all that stuff in hardware other than where I’m deduping, so I dedup with abandon. I asked ChatGPT to rewrite it as a warning. I read it and it seems ok to me. Feel free to make whatever changes you'd like, of course. Signed-off-by: Jaspal Suri <[email protected]>
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Thank you for adding this! I think should go in the SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS section. Maybe a subheading in that section. This is replicated in the man page as well (the readme is just a formatted man page), but if you don't want to write |
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From your comment on the Hyperspace thread:
I asked ChatGPT to rewrite it as a warning. I read it and it seems ok to me. Feel free to make whatever changes you'd like, of course. Sorry for not naming the branch something else.