I have sent a more detailed follow up after my original question, to ask
about my concerns (for those hash collisions).
As I wrote, this status message (visible on every backupPC installation
in the "status page") is not discussed in the documentation.
I read in the github wiki:
/> In V4+, the file digest is the MD5 digest of the complete file. //
//> While MD5 collisions are now well known, and can be easily
constructed, in real use collisions will be extremely unlikely./
So I guess what I see (and have sent here) are such extremely unlikely
collisions.
In such a case, are those collisions worrying? Is there any need to zero
them out?
Thank you very much.
On 15/3/2023 10:57 π.μ., Kenneth Porter wrote:
On 3/14/2023 3:25 PM, John wrote:
That's the sort of attitude that puts genuine people off asking for
help on mailing lists. Rather than posting a cutting reply, why not
simply ask for a little more information if that's what's needed?
Please try to remember that English is not everyone's first language
and at the end of the day we are all human and have feelings...
Don't get discouraged. Apply Hanlon's Razor. Don't be put off by a
terse or impatient reply. Remember that a lot of mailing list members
are sysadmins who support a LOT of software and are subscribed to a
LOT of lists. So the person asking a question should be doing some leg
work before posting a question if one expects a useful response.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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