Pavel Machek wrote: > > But ... it was, and there is still possibility of just using position > in directory to avoid collisions completely. I was just going to ask this. Rather than using a random number, we should use something based on the position in the directory, and I suspect we should still verify that it is unique (since some FAT implementation may garbage-collect the directory thereby moving the offset.) -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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