From: Martin Uecker Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:39:05 GMT Subject: Re: space compression (again) Message-ID: <20050416143905.GA10370@macavity> In-Reply-To: On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 12:11:43PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > > > So I guess I'll have to implement this and find out, won't I? =) > > The best way to shup somebody up is always to just do it, and say "hey, I > told you so". It's hard to argue with numbers. The right thing (TM) is to switch from SHA1 of compressed content for the complete monolithic file to a merkle hash tree of the uncompressed content. This would make the hash independent of the actual storage method (chunked or not). Martin -- One night, when little Giana from Milano was fast asleep, she had a strange dream.