From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: more git updates..
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 17:42:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050423174227.51360d63.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9VF1rZLXw-B@khms.westfalen.de>
> It's an unavoidable
> result of using less bits than the original data has.
Even _not_ using a hash will have collisions - copy different globs of
data around enough, and sooner or later, two globs that started out
different will end up the same, due to errors in our computers. Even
ECC on all the buses, channels, and memory will just reduce this chance.
There is no mathematical perfection obtainable here. Deal with it.
Computers are about engineering, not philosophical perfection.
If something is likely to happen less than once in a billion years,
then for all practical purposes, it won't happen.
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul Jackson <pj@engr.sgi.com> 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401
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2005-04-09 19:45 more git updates Linus Torvalds
2005-04-09 19:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-09 20:07 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-09 21:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-09 21:00 ` tony.luck
2005-04-10 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-12 17:34 ` Helge Hafting
2005-04-10 18:19 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-10 23:04 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-04-11 9:27 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-04-09 21:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-09 23:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-10 2:41 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-10 16:27 ` [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1 Petr Baudis
2005-04-10 16:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-10 19:49 ` Sean
2005-04-10 17:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-10 17:42 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-04-10 17:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-10 18:45 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-10 19:13 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-04-10 21:27 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-10 20:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-10 21:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-10 23:49 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-10 22:27 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-10 23:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-10 23:26 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-10 23:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-10 23:56 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-11 0:20 ` GIT license (Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1) Linus Torvalds
2005-04-11 0:27 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-11 7:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-11 8:40 ` Florian Weimer
2005-04-11 10:52 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-11 16:05 ` Florian Weimer
2005-04-10 23:23 ` [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.1 Paul Jackson
2005-04-11 0:15 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-04-11 0:30 ` Re: " Petr Baudis
2005-04-11 1:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-10 20:41 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-11 1:58 ` [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.2 Petr Baudis
2005-04-11 2:46 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-11 10:17 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-11 8:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-11 10:16 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-11 13:57 ` [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3 Petr Baudis
2005-04-12 12:47 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-04-12 13:02 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-12 13:13 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-04-12 13:23 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-12 13:07 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-13 8:47 ` Russell King
2005-04-13 8:59 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-13 9:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-13 9:09 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-13 9:25 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-13 9:42 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-13 10:24 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-13 17:01 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-13 18:07 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-13 18:22 ` git mailing list (Re: Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3) Linus Torvalds
2005-04-13 18:38 ` Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] git-pasky-0.3 Daniel Barkalow
2005-04-13 12:43 ` Xavier Bestel
2005-04-13 16:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-13 18:15 ` Xavier Bestel
2005-04-13 23:05 ` bd
2005-04-13 14:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-13 14:47 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-13 14:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-13 9:35 ` Russell King
2005-04-13 9:38 ` Russell King
2005-04-13 9:49 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-13 11:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-13 14:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-13 9:46 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-13 10:28 ` Russell King
2005-04-13 19:03 ` Russell King
2005-04-13 19:13 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-13 19:21 ` Russell King
2005-04-13 19:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-10 6:53 ` more git updates Christopher Li
2005-04-10 11:48 ` Ralph Corderoy
2005-04-10 19:23 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-10 18:42 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-10 22:30 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-11 13:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2005-04-20 20:29 ` Kai Henningsen
2005-04-24 0:42 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2005-04-24 1:29 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-04-24 4:13 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-24 4:38 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-04-24 4:53 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-25 11:57 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-04-25 16:40 ` David Wagner
2005-04-25 20:35 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-04-24 16:52 ` Horst von Brand
2005-04-24 8:00 ` Kai Henningsen
[not found] ` <6f6293f10504210220744af114@mail.gmail.com>
2005-04-24 8:01 ` Kai Henningsen
2005-04-11 11:35 ` [rfc] git: combo-blobs Ingo Molnar
2005-04-11 14:45 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-11 15:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-11 15:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-11 15:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-11 15:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-11 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-11 16:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-12 5:42 ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-04-11 18:13 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-04-11 18:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-11 20:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-11 18:40 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-11 17:50 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-11 15:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-11 15:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-12 4:05 ` more git updates David Eger
2005-04-12 8:16 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-12 20:44 ` David Eger
2005-04-12 21:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-12 22:29 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-04-12 22:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-13 4:32 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-04-12 22:36 ` David Eger
2005-04-12 23:48 ` Panagiotis Issaris
2005-04-12 23:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-04-12 23:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-13 0:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-04-13 1:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-13 10:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-04-13 20:44 ` Matt Mackall
2005-04-13 23:42 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2005-04-14 0:13 ` Matt Mackall
2005-04-13 9:30 ` Russell King
2005-04-13 10:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-04-13 14:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-10 2:07 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-10 2:20 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-10 2:09 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-10 7:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-10 5:53 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-10 9:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-04-10 7:06 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-10 11:38 ` tony.luck
2005-04-10 9:48 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-10 9:40 ` Wichert Akkerman
2005-04-10 9:41 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-10 7:09 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-10 11:21 ` Proposal for shell-patch-format [was: Re: more git updates..] Rutger Nijlunsing
2005-04-10 15:44 ` more git updates Linus Torvalds
2005-04-10 17:00 ` Rutger Nijlunsing
2005-04-10 18:50 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-10 20:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-10 19:03 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-10 22:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-10 19:53 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-10 23:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-10 21:28 ` Christopher Li
2005-04-12 5:14 ` David Lang
2005-04-12 6:00 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-12 7:05 ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-04-11 6:57 ` bert hubert
2005-04-11 7:20 ` Christer Weinigel
2005-04-10 23:14 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-10 23:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-04-11 0:19 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-11 15:49 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-04-11 18:30 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-11 0:10 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-09 22:00 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-09 23:21 ` Ralph Corderoy
2005-04-10 0:39 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-10 1:14 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2005-04-10 1:33 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-10 10:22 ` Ralph Corderoy
2005-04-10 17:30 ` Paul Jackson
2005-04-10 17:31 ` Rik van Riel
2005-04-10 17:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-04-11 16:46 ` ross
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2005-04-10 22:07 Luck, Tony
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