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hjohn
hjohn commented Sep 18, 2017

I discovered that verifying hashes with -c is much slower than generating them.

I was using this command:

rhash -c --skip-ok download.sfv

iotop reported disk read speeds of 30 MB/sec and rhash was consuming 100% CPU.

Then I thought, how does rhash know that the SFV file contains MD5 hashes? It probably doesn't, and it runs all checksum algorithms when doing a check and see

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