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It is to save time by not reading the whole file for files larger than `thresholdFileSize`. The code calls it fuzzy hash. The author says that they tested it o
by selcuka 5y ago
It is to save time by not reading the whole file for files larger than `thresholdFileSize`. The code calls it fuzzy hash.
The author says that they tested it on 172K+ files and it's safe, but I still wouldn't trust it enough to delete files from my filesystem.
- m-manu 5y agoThe tool doesn't delete anything -- just reports. If you're uncomfortable with "fuzzy hash", use the -thorough cmd line option.
- selcuka 5y agoA better implementation could be to perform a full hash (not CRC32 though; maybe even a byte-by-byte comparison) when the fuzzy hashes match, which is a small probability anyway.