Re: tosfs, faster hash function...

[Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.north.de>]

Eric R. Smith writes:

> As Julian pointed out, CRCs cannot be guaranteed to be unique.

 yup!  well if you make them long enough the probability(sp?) for
errors can be smaller than that of a gamma particle flipping a bit
in DRAM but with 32 bits... :)

>  For that
> reason, I don't think it's a good idea to use them for inodes in tosfs.
> The current scheme is inefficient for some purposes, but much safer,
> and I'll take safety over efficiency any day.

 ok.  but then there are more things in MiNT that are not safe,
like disk changes, or the (in)famous exec/Mshrink race condition
causing spurious malloc failures...

 ;-)
	Juergen
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