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Re: [Gluster-devel] Faster hashing for DHT
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Jeff Darcy |
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Re: [Gluster-devel] Faster hashing for DHT |
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Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:29:49 -0500 |
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On 01/05/2010 07:56 PM, Martin Fick wrote:
> Hmm, if it were collision resistant, wouldn't that mean that you would need
> one server for each file you want to store? I suspect you want many
> collisions, just a good even distribution of those collisions,
"Collision resistance" in this context usually refers to avoidance of
*spurious* collisions - i.e. those above the level that would occur with
an ideal distribution - so "even distribution" is a good summary of its
practical effect.