Hashing method for initCrc

[RicoSuave]

What is the method that splunkd uses to hash the first 256 bytes of a file that is being monitored?

[yannK · Accepted solution]

a bit of magic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computation_of_CRC

Remarks about CRC options.

• You can add the source to the calculation (crcSalt= with SOURCE in caps in inputs.conf)
• and since Splunk 5.0 you can setup a longer CRC (initCrcLength in inputs.conf)

[RicoSuave]

Really i'm just curious.