comparing multiple copies of terrabytes of data?

Istvan Albert ialbert at mailblocks.com
Mon Oct 25 14:26:16 EDT 2004


Dan Stromberg wrote:

> Rather than cmp'ing twice, to verify data integrity, I was thinking we
> could speed up the comparison a bit, by using a python script that does 3

Use the cmp. So what if you must run it twice ... by the way I
really doubt that you could speed up the process in python
... you'll probably end up with a much slower version

Istvan.



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