Re: Finding hardlinks

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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%.

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