Re: Transparent compression in the FS

From: Mike Fedyk
Date: Sun Oct 26 2003 - 21:10:07 EST


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?
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