On Dec 3, 2006, at 7:26 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:

Volume data format, and it has known bugs (digest problems), which means that if any fixes involve changing the data format (as one does that I found this
morning)

If you're referring to digesting/signing sparse blocks (the change you committed this morning), that is absolutely not a bug. All file data must be hashed for the signature, or it will be possible to insert data undetected. Even blocks of 0s can have a serious impact on the meaning of a file.

-landonf

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