Re: [sleuthkit-developers] Sort in hfind

[Marcio C. <mar...@gm...>]

On 5/22/05, Brian Carrier <ca...@sl...> wrote:
>=20
>   hfind uses the local 'sort' tool to sort the index file.  I think the
> NSRL files are already somewhat sorted by SHA1, but not fully (although
> I'm traveling and don't have access to the full database).  So, the
> SHA1 sorting does not need as many temporary files because less work
> needs to be done.  The MD5 sorting may need to duplicate the entire DB
> in temp files.

The strange thing it that the /tmp has 1GB... And the oddest thing is
that now it worked... :-P Maybe I have updated sort, I'm not sure...

Thanks!

M=E1rcio.