On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Arjen Lentz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Morgan, Jay > > On 21/08/2009, at 2:36 AM, Morgan Tocker wrote: > >> For reference - DRBD lets you choose your algorithm as well. >> >> While I agree with the comments about CRCs being weak, they are >> awesomely fast. And Nehalem CPUs make them even faster: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE4#SSE4.2 >> > > > Can we please lay this to rest by noting that we should *NOT* be using a > CRC, but a fingerprint algorithm that's specifically designed to allow > comparison of two distinct data blocks and deciding whether they're > identical. > PPPPLEASE? > > Cheers, > Arjen. > -- > Arjen Lentz, Director @ Open Query (http://openquery.com) > Exceptional Services for MySQL at a fixed budget. > +
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