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From: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
To: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga)
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 01:23:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aec7e5c30504111623309582d5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050411225139.GA9145@pasky.ji.cz>

On 4/12/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> wrote:

> (iv) You fail to propose a better solution.

I would feel safer with back end storage filenames based on email and
mtime together with an optional hash lookup that turns collisions into
worse performance. But that's just me.

/ magnus

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-11 23:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-11 22:40 Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga) Pedro Larroy
2005-04-11 22:51 ` Petr Baudis
2005-04-11 23:23   ` Magnus Damm [this message]
2005-04-12 10:02     ` Catalin Marinas
2005-04-12  9:59   ` Barry K. Nathan
2005-04-12 12:10   ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-04-12 15:29 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-04-14 15:54   ` Eric D. Mudama
2005-04-12 16:35 ` Eric Rannaud
2005-04-14  8:30   ` Andy Isaacson
2005-04-14 13:35     ` Eric Rannaud

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