Interesting effect of choice of pack names

Ian Clatworthy ian.clatworthy at internode.on.net
Fri Nov 30 01:46:19 GMT 2007


John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> I have to say, I thought this was pretty neat:
> 
> % md5sum *.pack
> aa3ab464f867aaa3609bc8ba20f1e342  aa3ab464f867aaa3609bc8ba20f1e342.pack
> b97fb500a3579929a6e6da220a73e01d  b97fb500a3579929a6e6da220a73e01d.pack
> bae81ff18176baa44d1d541fe8e8076c  bae81ff18176baa44d1d541fe8e8076c.pack
> ...
> 
> Having pack files be named after their md5sum does mean that you can implicitly
> check for disk corruption with nothing other than md5sum.

Cool!

Ian C.



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