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[Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>]

Agreed!

On Sat, 22 Jul 2017 12:08:16 -0700
Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:

> On 7/18/17 10:51 PM, Thomas Orgis wrote:
> > Am Sat, 15 Jul 2017 15:56:04 -0300
> > schrieb Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>: 
> >> I'm going to implement support for it in sorcery, and I would like
> >> to make it the default (depending on either implementation).
> > I see a maximum speedup of about 2. This might be interesting for
> > various applications, but I do not see much point in using it as
> > default for spell sources. The time spent verifying those is not long
> > and there's value in agreeing on some standard to possibly compare with
> > others.
> >
> > But sorcery's md5sum logs for cleanse … yeah, replacing that with a
> > more secure and about as fast checksum would be nice. Did you have that
> > in mind? We also could think about compressing /var/log/sorcery/b2sum,
> > then, which would help a bit to avoid storage overhead compared to
> > md5sum. Of course, it is mostly the file path that compresses well …
> >
> > [0] http://git.iodev.co.uk/ismael/smgl/b2sum.git/
> >
> > How does it compare to the coreutils variant? And … how do you name it
> > to be installed alongside the full-featured coreutils build (with
> > checking mode)?
> >
> >
> > Alrighty then,
> >
> > Thomas
> 
> I agree on both points. :) Changing default for spells does not sound
> like a great idea for the reasons Thomas specified, but changing the
> default for Sorcery's checksums to a faster/better method would work.
> 
> -sandalle
> 


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Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>

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