Re: Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga)

From: Magnus Damm
Date: Mon Apr 11 2005 - 18:24:16 EST


On 4/12/05, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxx> wrote:

> (iv) You fail to propose a better solution.

I would feel safer with back end storage filenames based on email and
mtime together with an optional hash lookup that turns collisions into
worse performance. But that's just me.

/ magnus
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