Hello,
i'm in the process of managing my music collection with git-annex. The initial "git annex add" using the sha1 banckend is quite long an i was wondering that it could be nice to launch multiple "sha1sum" processes in parallel to speed up things.
Anyway, thanks for this wonderful piece of software.
Jean-Baptiste
closing as dup of parallel possibilities (also see comments below) done --Joey
I'd expect the checksumming to be disk bound, not CPU bound, on most systems.
I suggest you start off on the WORM backend, and then you can run a job later to migrate to the SHA1 backend.