Re: Data Deduplication with the help of an online filesystem check

Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-05-04T14:39:35Z

Ric Wheeler schrieb:

> One thing in the above scheme that would be really interesting for all
> possible hash functions is maintaining good stats on hash collisions,
> effectiveness of the hash, etc. There has been a lot of press about MD5
> hash collisions for example - it would be really neat to be able to
> track real world data on those,

See here ("The hashing function"):

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html#some_design_issues

It's not "real world data", but it gives some overview which applies here.

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Tomasz Chmielewski