Recognizing index corruption (was RE: Problem withdreportcrashing)

[Chris Sellitto]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at bestweb.net] 
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:22 PM
> To: Chris Sellitto
> Cc: filepro list
> Subject: RE: Recognizing index corruption (was RE: Problem 
> withdreportcrashing)
> 
> Quoting Chris Sellitto (Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:31:06 -0400):
> 
> [...]
> >> Depending on just how thorough you want to be, the "right 
> way" to do 
> >> it would be:
> >>
> >>      Traverse the tree, following every branch, and 
> verifying that every
> >>      branch was reasonable.  (ie: the left branch points 
> to a lower key,
> >>      and the right branch points to a higher key.)
> >>
> >>      Verify that every leaf node reached is higher than 
> the previous one.
> >>
> >>      Verify that every leaf node contains the same value 
> as the filePro
> >>      record it points to.
> >>
> >>      Finally, read the filePro file sequentially, and make 
> sure that every
> >>      record can be found in the index.
> [...]
> >
> > Okay Ken, so when can we expect the utility? ;-)
> 
> Two weeks after the check clears.  :-)
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Touché 8-)

Christopher Sellitto
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