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Re: Hash collision count

From
Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date
Apr 24, 2005, 00:40 UTC
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<20050424004039.GU13222@pasky.ji.cz>
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<426AE9ED.4060005@pobox.com>

Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:35:57AM CEST, I got a letter where Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> told me that...

> Someone just told me that one implementation of the Venti archive 
> server[1] simply fails the write, if a data item exists with a duplicate 
> hash value.  As long as git fails or does something -predictable- in the 
> face of the hash collision, I'm satisfied.
-DCOLLISION_CHECK
See the top of Makefile.
-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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  1. Jeff GarzikApr 23, 2005
  2. Jeff GarzikApr 23, 2005
  3. Ray HeasmanApr 23, 2005
  4. Jeff GarzikApr 23, 2005
  5. Petr BaudisApr 23, 2005
  6. Jeff GarzikApr 24, 2005
  7. Petr BaudisApr 24, 2005
  8. Jeff GarzikApr 24, 2005
  9. Imre SimonApr 24, 2005
  10. Whales falling on houses - was: Hash collision countJon Seymour, Apr 24, 2005
  11. Tom LordApr 25, 2005
  12. Petr BaudisApr 26, 2005
  13. Ray HeasmanApr 24, 2005
  14. David LangApr 24, 2005

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