From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263740AbTJ0CPX (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:15:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263741AbTJ0CPW (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:15:22 -0500 Received: from vladimir.pegasys.ws ([64.220.160.58]:25104 "EHLO vladimir.pegasys.ws") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263740AbTJ0CPU (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Oct 2003 21:15:20 -0500 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 18:15:14 -0800 From: jw schultz To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Transparent compression in the FS Message-ID: <20031027021514.GC5198@pegasys.ws> Mail-Followup-To: jw schultz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1066163449.4286.4.camel@Borogove> <20031015133305.GF24799@bitwizard.nl> <3F8D6417.8050409@pobox.com> <20031016162926.GF1663@velociraptor.random> <20031016172930.GA5653@work.bitmover.com> <20031016174927.GB25836@speare5-1-14> <20031016230448.GA29279@pegasys.ws> <20031017094443.GA7738@elf.ucw.cz> <20031017182321.GB145@pegasys.ws> <20031027020844.GC4511@matchmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031027020844.GC4511@matchmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Message-Flag: Unauthorised duplication and storage of this email is a violation of international copyright law and is subject to prosecution. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:08:44PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:23:21AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > > The probability of false positives in rsync are orders of > > magnitude smaller than they would be in a block hashing > > filesystem. Yet we were seeing it happen (with truncated > > hash) at measurable rates on files as small as a few hundred > > megabytes. It was almost commonplace on iso images. > > So has there been anything done to solve this problem in rsync? Yes. Hence the use of the past tense. -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: jw@pegasys.ws Remember Cernan and Schmitt