2009/2/24 Dave Kempe :
> Hi,
> I need to checksum recursively alot of data, and store the checksums in a
> database. I can do most via a shell script, but was wondering if anyone
> could recommend a checksumming tool that was the fastest.
> I know about md5sum, sha1sum, cfv (not recursive enough).
Amos Shapira wrote:
2009/2/24 Dave Kempe :
Hi,
I need to checksum recursively alot of data, and store the checksums in a
database. I can do most via a shell script, but was wondering if anyone
could recommend a checksumming tool that was the fastest.
I know about md5sum, sha1sum, cfv (not rec
2009/2/24 Dave Kempe :
> Hi,
> I need to checksum recursively alot of data, and store the checksums in a
> database. I can do most via a shell script, but was wondering if anyone
> could recommend a checksumming tool that was the fastest.
> I know about md5sum, sha1sum, cfv (not recursive enough).
I think that sum is probably fastest; but overall the CPU time is
negligible compared with the time to read the data.
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(replying to myself)
http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/
seems to be the answer, with a recompile to get the new CSV feature, and
using sha1 not md5 seems fast enough.
dave
Dave Kempe wrote:
Hi,
I need to checksum recursively alot of data, and store the checksums
in a database. I can do most via
Hi,
I need to checksum recursively alot of data, and store the checksums in
a database. I can do most via a shell script, but was wondering if
anyone could recommend a checksumming tool that was the fastest.
I know about md5sum, sha1sum, cfv (not recursive enough). I want to be
able to produce
