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- Subject: Re: tosfs, faster hash function...
- Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 3:57:20 CET
- From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>
- In-Reply-To: <199402251506.HAA08153@netcom9.netcom.com>; from "Eric R. Smith" at Feb 25, 94 7:06 am
- Message-Id: <9402260257.AA00520@jelal.north.de>
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- Eric R. Smith writes:
-
- > As Julian pointed out, CRCs cannot be guaranteed to be unique.
-
- yup! well if you make them long enough the probability(sp?) for
- errors can be smaller than that of a gamma particle flipping a bit
- in DRAM but with 32 bits... :)
-
- > For that
- > reason, I don't think it's a good idea to use them for inodes in tosfs.
- > The current scheme is inefficient for some purposes, but much safer,
- > and I'll take safety over efficiency any day.
-
- ok. but then there are more things in MiNT that are not safe,
- like disk changes, or the (in)famous exec/Mshrink race condition
- causing spurious malloc failures...
-
- ;-)
- Juergen
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