snapraid/TODO
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SnapRAID TODO
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This is a list of possible TODO for SnapRAID. The order is not relevant.
* Easy way to find duplicates using the computed hash.
* Easy way to find files using a specified block.
* Reduce memory occupation removing the flag field in the block structure.
* Add RAID6 redundancy support. There is the very good raid6 library from
H. Peter Anvin (hpa) in the Linux Kernel ready to use. See:
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/raid6.pdf
http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.38/lib/raid6
* Go multithread to speed up the MD5 computation. We can do it when syncing and
checking.
* Evaluate the new MurmorHash3 to use instead MD5. It should be faster, but
unsure of it's reliability. In fact, in MurmorHash2 was found a serious issue
that suggests to wait some time before using it.
* Use the O_NOATIME flag if run as 'root'. Anyway a better solution is to
mount the disk with the "noatime" and "nodiratime" options.