On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:13:44PM -0600, Alex Elder wrote: > Don't just loop indefinitely when an obfuscated name comes up as a > duplicate. Count the number of times we've found a duplicate and if > if it gets excessive despite choosing names at random, just give up > and use the original name without obfuscation. > > Technically, a typical 5-character name has 255 other names that can > have the same hash value. But the algorithm doesn't hit all > possible names (far from it) so duplicates are still possible. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Updates (v4): > - Rearranged things a bit so that if too many duplicates are > encountered, a warning gets emitted. > > Dave already signed off on it but the update was different enough I > thought I should post it once more. Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
