Question and feature requests for processor bound systems

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Thu Aug 18 19:18:51 GMT 2005


On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:48:08PM -0500, Evan Harris wrote:
> Will that be going into the upcoming 2.6.7 version?

Yes.

> One question: does it also do a rudimentary check to make sure that
> the last block that is still present still matches on the sender and
> receiver, so it can catch files and realize when they have had the
> data "shifted", and go back to the standard sync algo?

No, it appends the data, as it was told to do, and then, if the
whole-file checksum doesn't match, the normal re-do phase handles
correcting any part of the already-existing data that didn't match.

..wayne..


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