Re: Transparent compression in the FS

[jw schultz]

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.

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