From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] silly replica question (repeated m msgs won't go away) From: Charles Forsyth MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:10:20 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: dcebfcec-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 i don't think i'd describe what replica attempts as `heuristic'. there's a little graph of possibilities and it either chooses the safe path or requests guidance. an SHA1 hash would be helpful; by using mtime+length it can moan about insignificant changes but then again, with some things it's possible the mtime matters, and perhaps it should moan. having mentioned SHA1: there might be an interesting variant that uses venti scores.