Subject: Re: Sup, FFS and checksums.
To: None <greywolf@captech.com>
From: Mike Long <mike.long@analog.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/13/1995 17:24:10
greywolf@defender.VAS.viewlogic.com writes:

>is there still an unused field in the inode of a FFS?

Ugh.

>[Does sup have a flag for doing a content comparison instead of just
> checking ctimes?

No.  However, note that it doesn't just check the ctime; it also
checks the file size for normal files.  Sup doesn't do content
comparisons now because doing so would require reading the file, which
is much more expensive than a simple stat().
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