From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 12 08:55:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA25624 for current-outgoing; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 08:55:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA25589 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 08:54:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA07850; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:52:46 +0300 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:52:46 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: "Justin T. Gibbs" cc: John Polstra , Terry Lambert , faulkner@asgard.bga.com, current%FreeBSD.ORG@haldjas.folklore.ee Subject: Re: Praise for CVSup In-Reply-To: <199608120511.WAA01376@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > =========================================== >