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paranoid duplicates ON/OFF

When a file is to be added to the database, and its hash already exists, retrieve the file in the database and do a byte-for-byte comparison with the incoming file.

It's not clear what should happen if a hash collision does occur. Here are some probably causes and remedies:


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Zygo Blaxell 2003-03-04