Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [rfc] Near-constant time directory index for Ext2 | Date | Wed, 21 Feb 2001 00:30:05 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> probably a bad idea to use it, because in theory at least the VFS layer > might decide to switch the hash function around. I'm more interested in > hearing whether it's a good hash, and maybe we could improve the VFS hash > enough that there's no reason to use anything else..
Reiserfs seems to have done a lot of work on this and be using tea, which is also nice as tea is non trivial to abuse as a user to create pessimal file searches intentionally
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