Re: rsync: different target size

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

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Rick Thomas wrote:
>           I was thinking: if you don't trust rsync, then use something
> else to generate the checksums.  But if you trust rsync, why bother with
> double-checking in the first place?

Because it could be that rsync works fine, but there are some problems
with the hardware -- like bad blocks on the disk.

If you don't trust rsync you should use some other tool.

FWIW my 300GB take a few hours to check; on reasonably recent hardware
30 GB should take minutes, ie. less than an hour or so to verify.

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Johannes

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