Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750743AbXACNEb (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:04:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750746AbXACNEb (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:04:31 -0500 Received: from jabberwock.ucw.cz ([89.250.246.4]:56338 "EHLO jabberwock.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750743AbXACNEa (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:04:30 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:45:11 +0100 From: Martin Mares To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: pavel@ucw.cz, bhalevy@panasas.com, arjan@infradead.org, mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, nfsv4@ietf.org Subject: Re: Finding hardlinks Message-ID: References: <1166869106.3281.587.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4593890C.8030207@panasas.com> <1167300352.3281.4183.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <4593E1B7.6080408@panasas.com> <20070102191504.GA5276@ucw.cz> <20070103115632.GA3062@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 779 Lines: 21 Hello! > High probability is all you have. Cosmic radiation hitting your > computer will more likly cause problems, than colliding 64bit inode > numbers ;) No. If you assign 64-bit inode numbers randomly, 2^32 of them are sufficient to generate a collision with probability around 50%. Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares http://mj.ucw.cz/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth A Bash poem: time for echo in canyon; do echo $echo $echo; done - 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/