RE: [MiNT] Hash filename for index

["Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>]

Sorry,

I meant TOSFS (not VFATFS).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Julian Reschke
> Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 3:30 PM
> To: guido@freemint.de; MiNT mailing list
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] Hash filename for index
>
>
> > Provided we find a decent algorithm (which will also work with
> > potentially short strings) that hashes the filename (the "real"
> filename,
> > i. e. with the correct case on case-preserving filesystems)
> into a 32-bit
> > value we could avoid these problems at the risk of reporting a hard link
> > with the merely theoretical chance of 1:2^32 (*).  An application could
> > even circumvent this problem by additionally checking the link
> count.  If
> > it is zero, the identical indices were reported erroneously.
> >
> > Comments? Which hash algorithm would be a good choice?
>
> Actually, FATF32 already contains the code you are looking for. I think
> however that currently it is commented out.
>
>