in reply to MD5 Hash

Karger78:

You might want to flesh out your node with some more information. I don't know what you consider a "vast amount of time", but running a typical md5 program (md5sum) on my laptop took just under 52 seconds for a 292MB file. But I can't tell if it's faster than the program you're using or not...

Since you're on a perl site, I'm assuming that you're computing the hash with a perl program, perhaps using something from CPAN. If you provide a bit more information, perhaps we can be a bit more help.

...roboticus

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Re^2: MD5 Hash
by Karger78 (Beadle) on Dec 01, 2009 at 20:42 UTC
    620 MB accross a network share takes over 10 min.
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      Karger78:

      Perhaps you can SSH into the system hosting the network share, and have that computer compute the md5? If you're managing a network with multiple network shares, you might get a good speed boost by making each host compute the md5 values for the files it serves.

      ...roboticus
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        I like the idea of checking the 1st 64k of the md5 hash. How would i accomplish that from the code i posted above.
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