On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 03:09:48PM +0000, hru...@gmail.com wrote: > A completely other thing is to conclude that two *arbitrary* pieces of > data are the same only because they have the same hash. Arbitrary > means here that the one was not a copy of the other. And this is what > rsync seems to do as far as I understand the wikipedia web-page.
The probability of an electrical failure in your hard drive causing it to munge the file, or of a bug in the software using that file is much higher than this happening.
