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Subject: Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2
From: Ralph Loader <suckfish@ihug.co.nz>
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Andries,

> is very little interaction to start with. And the final AND that
truncates

> to the final size of the hash chain kills the high order bits.
> No good.

I didn't realise you were bit-masking down to the required size.

Yes, it would be pretty useless in that case.

Ralph.


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> Andries
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