Checksumming Files to Find Bit-Rot

Posted by tuxchick on Jun 29, 2011 11:48 AM EDT
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In a previous article extended file attributes were presented. These are additional bits of metadata that are tied to the file and can be used in a variety of ways. One of these ways is to add checksums to the file so that corrupted data can be detected. Let's take a look at how we can do this including some simple Python examples.

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