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> Is there any faster and reliable way to checksum |
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> whole paritions (not on "per file" base)??? |
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It depends on where your bottleneck is... |
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If you're cpu-bound you can try with a faster hash: md5sum or even |
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md4sum would be a good choice (collision resistance is irrelevant in |
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this application). |
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On the other hand, if you're limited by disk throughput (which is most |
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likely) there is not much you can do. After all, you have to read the |
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data in order to hash it, and that takes time. |
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andrea |
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