[Gluster-users] Bit rot disabled as default

[Gandalf Corvotempesta]

2016-06-15 18:12 GMT+02:00 Дмитрий Глушенок <glush at jet.msk.su>:
> Hello.
>
> May be because of current implementation of rotten bits detection - one hash
> for whole file. Imagine 40 GB VM image - few parts of the image are modified
> continuously (VM log files and application data are constantly changing).
> Those writes making checksum invalid and BitD has to recalculate it
> endlessly. As the result - checksum of VM image can never be verified.

I think you are right
But what about sharding? In this case, the hash should be created for
each shard and not the whole file.