Re: checksum_seed

2004-02-16 Thread Craig Barratt
jw schultz writes: > 1. Yes, you may contribute a patch. I favor the idea of > being able to supply a checksum seed. > > 2. Lets get the option name down to a more reasonable > length. --checksum-seed should be sufficient. I submitted a patch against 2.5.6pre1 last January for --checksum-see

Re: checksum_seed

2004-02-10 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 09:56:00PM -0800, Craig Barratt wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:14:06AM -0500, Jason M. Felice wrote: > > > I got the go-ahead from the client on my --link-by-hash proposal, and > > the seed is making the hash unstable. I can't figure out why the seed > > is there so I

Re: checksum_seed

2004-02-10 Thread Craig Barratt
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:14:06AM -0500, Jason M. Felice wrote: > I got the go-ahead from the client on my --link-by-hash proposal, and > the seed is making the hash unstable. I can't figure out why the seed > is there so I don't know whether to cirumvent it in my particular case > or calculate

Re: checksum_seed

2004-02-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:14:06AM -0500, Jason M. Felice wrote: > I got the go-ahead from the client on my --link-by-hash proposal, and > the seed is making the hash unstable. I can't figure out why the seed > is there so I don't know whether to cirumvent it in my particular case > or calculate a