From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Mar 14 13:37:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D9C237B718 for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:37:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA56770; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:37:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Nate Williams Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a SITE MD5 command to ftpd References: <20010314105918.A5204@roaming.cacheboy.net> <35525.984597779@critter> <20010314210758.A2405@roaming.cacheboy.net> <15023.53743.215996.538067@nomad.yogotech.com> <20010314130025.A3031@dragon.nuxi.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 14 Mar 2001 22:37:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: "David O'Brien"'s message of "Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:00:26 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David O'Brien" writes: > The checker can *easily* keep a list of files sizes and date stamps and > compare that. Date stamps are useless. They'd be different on different master sites anyway. File size is almost as bad, as two files can very easily be totally different and still have the same size. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message