Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:52:46 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, faulkner@asgard.bga.com, current%FreeBSD.ORG@haldjas.folklore.ee Subject: Re: Praise for CVSup Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960812134835.7380C-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199608120511.WAA01376@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 11 Aug 1996, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >What I think I might do is make it an option. Then the user can decide > >how to trade off paranoia against speed. > > > >-- John > > Can you make MD5 checksumming of every file an option too? I know that > it is expensive, but it would be the perfect thing for recovery for > a corrupted filesystem. > Perhaps we should integrate the newer tiger hash into FreeBSD? It is something like 2.2 - 2.3 times faster on my computer. That is, actually, with 192 bit digests. Speeding up checksumming would not be too bad in the cases where a lot of needs to be done. Sander > -- > Justin T. Gibbs > =========================================== > FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations > =========================================== >
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