On 18.08.2013 14:15, stef...@apache.org wrote: > Author: stefan2 > Date: Sun Aug 18 12:15:01 2013 > New Revision: 1515088 > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1515088 > Log: > On the log-addressing branch: For low-overhead checksumming, > add standard FNV-1a and a faster modified version of that to > the list of checksum kinds supported with svn_checksum_t. > > We will use this new checksum to secure parts of FSFS (and > later FSX) that are not directly covered by MD5/SHA1 content > checksums. That will help to localize corruptions much quicker > and more accurately but it will not eliminate the need to run > a full content verification.
If you're using this for detecting corruption, rather than key distribution, why not instead use a 64-bit or even 32-bit CRC? It should be much faster than any kind of multiply-with-prime hash. -- Brane -- Branko Čibej | Director of Subversion WANdisco // Non-Stop Data e. br...@wandisco.com
