Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262093AbVDLKBv (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 06:01:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262092AbVDLKBv (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 06:01:51 -0400 Received: from orb.pobox.com ([207.8.226.5]:2444 "EHLO orb.pobox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262093AbVDLJ7s (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Apr 2005 05:59:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 02:59:42 -0700 From: "Barry K. Nathan" To: Petr Baudis Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga) Message-ID: <20050412095942.GC8008@ip68-4-98-123.oc.oc.cox.net> References: <20050411224021.GA25106@larroy.com> <20050411225139.GA9145@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050411225139.GA9145@pasky.ji.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 816 Lines: 20 On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:51:39AM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:40:21AM CEST, I got a letter > where Pedro Larroy told me that... [snip...] > (iii) Your argument against comparing with the probability of a hardware > error does not make sense to me. I didn't understand it either, at first, but then I read this: http://www.usenix.org/events/hotos03/tech/full_papers/henson/henson_html/node9.html Whether this is serious enough to actually worry about is another question... -Barry K. Nathan - 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/