On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:12:26 +0200 Jörn Engel <joern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > While I agree with your concern, those numbers are quite silly. The > chances of 99.8% of pages being free and the remaining 0.2% being > perfectly spread across all 2MB large_pages are lower than those of SHA1 > creating a collision. Actually it'd be pretty easy to craft an application which allocates seven pages for pagecache, then one for <something>, then seven for pagecache, then one for <something>, etc. I've had test apps which do that sort of thing accidentally. The result wasn't pretty. - 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
