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Quotes are from GargoyleMT, can't get it to display properly :( ...with a suitable algorithm, the root hash of the tree can be used as the unique file identifier... True. My suggestion was that these were unrelated, to avoid a complex hashing at startup. However, if the main problem with hashing see...

Ok, nice discussion you have going here! 8) First of all, the discussion seems to fade, when the amount of hashing is introduced. I think that it must be pointed out that there are two reasons for hashing the file. One has actually the same use as the CRC, and is applied to the whole file. This hash...