On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 13:00 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > 50% probability of false positive on 4G files seems like very ugly > > design problem to me. > > 4 billion files, each with more than one link is pretty far fetched. > And anyway, filesystems can take steps to prevent collisions, as they > do currently for 32bit st_ino, without serious difficulties > apparently. Maybe not 4 billion files, but you can get a large number of >1 linked files, when you copy full directories with "cp -rl". Which I do a lot when developing. I've done that a few times with the Linux tree. Given other utils that copy as hard links, can perhaps make a 4 billion number of files with >1 link possible, and perhaps likely in the near future. -- Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
