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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2
Date: 21 Feb 2001 15:57:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <971klq$vek$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14VNAU-00014j-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20010221023515.6DF8E18C99@oscar.casa.dyndns.org> <971i36$180$1@penguin.transmeta.com>

Followup to:  <971i36$180$1@penguin.transmeta.com>
By author:    torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> (The current VFS name hash is probably _really_ stupid - I think it's
> still my original one, and nobody probably ever even tried to run it
> through any testing.  For example, I bet that using a shift factor of 4
> is really bad, because it evenly divides a byte, which together with the
> xor means that you can really easily generate trivial bad cases). 
> 

Actually, the VFS name hash I think is derived from the "Dragon Book"
hash (via autofs), so it's not like it's completely untested.

	-hpa
-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-21 23:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-20 15:04 [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2 Daniel Phillips
2001-02-20 20:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-20 21:08   ` Jeremy Jackson
2001-02-20 21:20     ` Mike Dresser
2001-02-20 22:36       ` Jeremy Jackson
2001-02-20 23:08         ` Daniel Phillips
2001-02-21  1:04           ` Bernd Eckenfels
2001-02-21 16:38             ` Daniel Phillips
2001-02-20 22:58       ` Jonathan Morton
2001-02-20 21:41   ` Daniel Phillips
2001-02-21  0:22     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-21  0:30       ` Alan Cox
2001-02-21  2:35         ` Ed Tomlinson
2001-02-21 23:13           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-21 23:34             ` Davide Libenzi
2001-02-21 23:59               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-21 23:57             ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-02-22  0:35             ` Ed Tomlinson
2001-02-21  1:01       ` Andreas Dilger
2001-02-22  2:28       ` Daniel Phillips
2001-02-22  3:30         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-22 16:33           ` Chris Mason
2001-02-22 22:30           ` Daniel Phillips
2001-02-21 17:21 ` Davide Libenzi
2001-02-21 21:08   ` Martin Mares
2001-02-21 21:29     ` Davide Libenzi
2001-02-21 21:32       ` Martin Mares
2001-02-21 21:59         ` Davide Libenzi
2001-02-21 22:26           ` Martin Mares
2001-02-21 22:43             ` Davide Libenzi
2001-02-21 22:14         ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-21 22:32           ` Martin Mares
2001-02-21 22:38             ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-21 22:50               ` Martin Mares
2001-02-21 22:54                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-21 23:07                   ` Martin Mares
2001-02-21 23:15                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-21 23:42                       ` Daniel Phillips
2001-02-21 23:52                         ` Davide Libenzi
     [not found]                       ` <3A945081.E6EB78F4@innominate.de>
2001-02-21 23:48                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-22  1:22                           ` Daniel Phillips
2001-02-22  1:42                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-22  2:03                             ` Andreas Dilger
2001-02-22  2:41                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-22  3:43                                 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-02-22  4:02                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-22  5:19                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-22 11:31                                       ` Ingo Oeser
2001-02-22 18:20                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-02-22  4:02                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-22  7:03                                     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-02-22  4:03                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-22 10:35                                     ` Alan Cox
2001-02-23  0:59                                       ` Felix von Leitner
2001-02-22  3:08                               ` Daniel Phillips
2001-02-22  8:06                                 ` [rfc] [LONG] " Andreas Dilger
2001-02-22  7:20                       ` [rfc] " Bill Wendling
2001-02-22  8:34                       ` Rogier Wolff
2001-02-21 23:26                     ` Jamie Lokier
2001-02-22 19:04                     ` Kai Henningsen
2001-02-22  6:23 ` [Ext2-devel] " tytso
2001-02-22  7:24   ` Daniel Phillips
2001-02-22 13:20     ` tytso
2001-02-22 18:16       ` Andreas Dilger
2001-02-22 23:04         ` Daniel Phillips
2001-02-23 20:11           ` tytso
2001-02-24  0:32             ` Andreas Dilger
2001-02-22 23:40         ` tytso
2001-02-22 18:38 ` Kai Henningsen
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10102211740550.1933-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-02-21 22:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-02-23  1:52 Andries.Brouwer
2001-02-23 21:43 ` Ralph Loader
2001-02-23 22:37   ` Guest section DW
2001-02-24  2:47     ` Ralph Loader
2001-02-24  5:34     ` Ralph Loader
2001-02-23  2:49 Andries.Brouwer
2001-02-23  3:42 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-02-23 12:20 ` Jonathan Morton
2001-02-23 18:57   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-02-23 12:38 Andries.Brouwer

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