Add check-file SSH_FXP_EXTENDED functionality (calculating hash) #350
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Can be merged only after PR #349.
This is very useful for checking files during synchronization.
I gave up on rclone, osync and unison, because they are extremely slow over SSHFS, because SSHFS sends dozens of commands even for the simplest directory listing.
I started to implement a python script for fast bidirectional sync especially optimized for your sftp server (approx. 100 times faster check than the mentioned solutions above), and hashing the files on the first run speeds up operation even another approx 10 times). So this hashing is very useful.
Note: The implemented version only acceps requests for hashing the whole file.