war story: parallel(1) command

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Wed Jul 31 15:31:35 UTC 2013


Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> If MD5 is the same, when checking, then check also a stronger hash on
> file, its size and file name.

The same hash will be a very rare occurrence, so a simple file compare
can be done without having much impact on overall performance.
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