> It's correct that metrics-db does not fetch non-referenced descriptors. > But it does parse the cached-descriptors[.new] files from gabelmoo, one of > the directory authorities. So, the archives at least contain the > descriptors published to gabelmoo. But there may be descriptors that are > only published to one or more of the other directory authorities which > would then not be contained in the metrics archive. I can't say how many > descriptors we're talking about. > > See #2763 and #2282 for more discussion about this issue. The current > status of these tasks is that we need to extend Tor to make the rejected > descriptors and those not contained in the consensus available via the > directory protocol. Once that's done, I can extend metrics-db to archive > these descriptors, too. I'd like to turn off rsyncing the > cached-descriptors* files from gabelmoo sooner rather than later. > >> > If my assumption is correct: >> > Are there also archives that contain all descriptors? (referenced + >> > unreferenced) >> > Does the directory-archive script[3] archive/fetch all descriptors? > The directory-archive script only downloads referenced descriptors, too.
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