Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261986AbVDKXXF (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:23:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261988AbVDKXXF (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:23:05 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.200]:33092 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261986AbVDKXXD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 19:23:03 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ONLVVYx7G6cfyJvFuaTjfVSrd7dzVNi1M+kE/BEh6ULqijr3H6jQZxUGwfHKWSZdmNtGeL2qrKAreZd9MuGq90lkuQAMh9krkzeP9QiynMiQoT51D6iP8ZWwbpMZHI46XASjSFgKRqesXxvZsTRFOh2UKHYvliJpkphspiw8kRI= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 01:23:02 +0200 From: Magnus Damm Reply-To: Magnus Damm To: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050411225139.GA9145@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050411224021.GA25106@larroy.com> <20050411225139.GA9145@pasky.ji.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 528 Lines: 14 On 4/12/05, Petr Baudis 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/