[rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Adjust librdiff blocksize for files > 1GB

[Eric Wheeler]

Hello all,

At the expensive of slightly increased diff blocks, I propose we align
the librsync blocksize to be RAID-stripe-size friendly.

Currently, rdiff-backup uses a librsync blocksize of "16-byte aligned
square_root(file_length)".

For large files, square_root returns values that are not condusive to
RAID stripe sizes.  For example, a 5GB file would have a block size of
73264.  

The attached patch forces the librsync blocksize to multiples of
Globals.blocksize (which is currently 128k) for files > 1GB.  

Please let me know what you think, I'm open to comments and suggestions.

-Eric

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