With today's amount of storage the probability of a collision is too low for that to happen. I read that in the Venti paper[1]. I would not consider them UUIDs though, since the same data blocks will have the same sha-1 hash on both servers. If that doesn't cause a problem you're fine
[1] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/venti/venti.pdf On 2/6/09, anoop.an...@gmail.com <anoop.an...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have a query regarding the scores in venti. Here is my question: > Since the venti scores are SHA-1 hashes, can they be considered as > UUIDs? I have two different venti servers and am storing different > sets of databolcks on each. I am wondering whether a scenario will > arise where server A and server B gives the same score for completely > different datablocks. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Anoop > >
