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Date:      Tue, 13 Mar 2001 15:07:07 -0600
From:      Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2GB limit on gzip?
Message-ID:  <20010313150705.A86402@northernbrewer.com>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20010313134412.040e25e0@marble.sentex.ca>; from mike@sentex.net on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 01:45:18PM -0500
References:  <dd7sat4ke5rqbbc78f3h7ofmj0mguom82n@4ax.com> <20010312165812.A82168@northernbrewer.com> <20010312173441.A25752@dan.emsphone.com> <20010312195330.A82645@northernbrewer.com> <20010312213743.A7606@dan.emsphone.com> <20010312223210.A83134@northernbrewer.com> <SEN.984465737.22594891@news.sentex.net> <dd7sat4ke5rqbbc78f3h7ofmj0mguom82n@4ax.com> <20010313104513.A85546@northernbrewer.com> <5.0.2.1.0.20010313134412.040e25e0@marble.sentex.ca>

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Mike Tancsa (mike@sentex.net) wrote:
> What if you create a big file, do an md5 checksum, copy it to another 
> location, and compare the md5 ?

They sometimes differ! I have tested this on two different filesystems
(two different disks, in fact), and I occasionally get different md5
hashes. 

-- 
Christopher Farley
www.northernbrewer.com

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