From: Brian Warner <warner@allmydata.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 03:14:05 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: dirnodes.txt: update docs a bit, we don't yet do choose-latest-version, just choose... 
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dirnodes.txt: update docs a bit, we don't yet do choose-latest-version, just choose-any-version
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diff --git a/docs/dirnodes.txt b/docs/dirnodes.txt
index 6d033a60..5aa3fbda 100644
--- a/docs/dirnodes.txt
+++ b/docs/dirnodes.txt
@@ -223,10 +223,10 @@ unavailable, but not corrupt it.
 
 A sufficient number of colluding storage servers can perform a rollback
 attack: replace all shares of the whole mutable file with an earlier version.
-When retrieving the contents of a mutable file, the client queries more than
-one server and uses the highest available version number. This insures that
-one or two misbehaving storage servers cannot cause this rollback on their
-own.
+TODO: To prevent this, when retrieving the contents of a mutable file, the
+client should query more servers than necessary and use the highest available
+version number. This insures that one or two misbehaving storage servers
+cannot cause this rollback on their own.
 
 
 === Improving the efficiency of dirnodes ===