Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jan 2004 02:36:09 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Redundancy eliminating file systems, breaking MD5, donating money to OSDL |
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Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > *2: I had a direcory of about 1,5 Million images and "md5sum"med them to > eliminate doubles. The Log-file, at one point, had the same md5sum as > one of the pictures.
Something similar happened to me once. Two different files with the same result from md5sum.
When I ran md5sum again, it still reported the same results.
Then when I flushed the page cache and ran it again, it reported different results.
I concluded it was a rare page cache corruption heisenbug. Scary.
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