Re: Design challenges in chunkd self-checking

[Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:53:55 -0500
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> If you have a constant pointer value [for the lifetime of the hash table 
> entry], use g_direct_hash.  If you have a nul-terminated string, GLib 
> also has g_str_hash.

Of course I considered these, but thanks to our keys being a random
byte string now (remember whose idea it was?), and not having all
keys listed somewhere (obviously), neither works.

> Otherwise, I would pick something simple like djb's hash.  There is a 
> version in nfs4d/main.c that you can grab.  djb put his code into the 
> public domain, which makes licensing easy.

I'll give it a thought, thanks. I thought I liked Hsui's SuperFastHash,
but oh well.

-- Pete