...and a question (SHA1 UUIDs)

[David Carter]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Bron Gondwana wrote:

>> If we go with a 'uuid_mode' option, my inclination is default it to 
>> 'none' or 'off', so standalone servers aren't wasting CPU by doing SHA1 
>> (or else we couple check for 'sync_host' && 'uuid_mode' before doing 
>> SHA1).
>
> I'd be inclined to make them two separate choices, because sha1 in the
> index is still very valuable for integrity checks and potentially
> duplicate finding (post dated "single instance store" even!)

Agreed.

Do we want to to rename the UUID field (CHECKSUM? SHA1?) as part of the 
work? The original name is rather accidental, and there is obvious 
potential for confusion with UIDs.

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