[Chunky_bacon] my ruby project - hard drive backup

[travis+ml-chunky-bacon at subspacefield.org]

http://www.subspacefield.org/security/hdb/

Been working on this a few months (off and on) to learn the ruby.

If anyone wants to see how a program evolves over time, I tried to write that up here:

http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/hdb_history.html

I was really shocked when I discovered that my object lookup for already-archived
files (to get a hash value) was actually slower than reading the files and computing
the hash, when the object database got to be several million.  Optimizing it involves
using a different, potentially less-flexible design, and so for now I've disabled
it.

There are several more-pressing issues, such as supporting an archive that
spans multiple removable HDDs.
-- 
Good code works on most inputs; correct code works on all inputs.
My emails do not have attachments; it's a digital signature that your mail
program doesn't understand. | http://www.subspacefield.org/~travis/ 
If you are a spammer, please email john at subspacefield.org to get blacklisted.
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 833 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://www.noisebridge.net/pipermail/chunky_bacon/attachments/20101213/b0956671/attachment-0002.sig>