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DISCUSSION Ihar 'Philips' Filipau 1 participant 1 message Oct 17, 2003 7 messages not in the archive

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Quoted 6 lines · Jeff Garzik
Quoted 2 lines · Val Henson

of many kinds of hardware errors. Further analysis shows that this approach is not as risk-free as it seems at first glance."

I'm curious if anyone has done any work on using multiple different checksums? For example, the cost of checksumming a single block with multiple algorithms (sha1+md5+crc32 for a crazy example), and storing

With sha1 you probably have 8-9 nines reliability. You can improve this - but still adding nines doesn't mean it
(reliability) becomes 100%.

my 0.02c.

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