In response to Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Am 2006-10-05 21:22:04, schrieb Gregory S. Williamson: > > > a sufficiently large hash (MD5 for instance). Of course, there's > > I do this already but have problems since I have > stored arround 130 million files on a server... > > > time to create the hash which might be an issue in a high volume > > system. Extending a hash with some other data (date ?) can > > MD5 hashes are 32 Bytes long, maybe they change > it to 64 Bytes? > > I have already over 2000 collisions and checked > it, that the files are NOT the same. Try sha1 or sha256. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.