Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755116AbZGAKI3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:08:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753169AbZGAKIU (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:08:20 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:44656 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752372AbZGAKIU (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:08:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 11:09:34 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Pavel Machek Cc: tridge@samba.org, OGAWA Hirofumi , john.lanza@linux.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Kleikamp , Steve French , Mingming Cao , Paul McKenney Subject: Re: [PATCH] Added CONFIG_VFAT_FS_DUALNAMES option Message-ID: <20090701110934.2f43591c@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090630063102.GB1351@ucw.cz> References: <19013.8005.541836.436991@samba.org> <20090630063102.GB1351@ucw.cz> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 618 Lines: 17 > What happens on collision? With 60000 entries in directory, there will > be 50% chance of collision. BAD. Far more surely - its a birthday paradox. > Why not use something like position in directory instead of random > number? Agreed 100%. I'm also not sure it should be called "vfat" when operating in this mode as it's not vfat any more - it needs a new name. Alan -- 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/