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Doug Cutting updated HADOOP-1385:
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Resolution: Fixed
Status: Resolved (was: Patch Available)
I just committed this. Thanks, Owen!
> MD5Hash has a bad hash function
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> Key: HADOOP-1385
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1385
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: io
> Affects Versions: 0.12.3
> Reporter: Owen O'Malley
> Assigned To: Owen O'Malley
> Fix For: 0.13.0
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> Attachments: 1385.patch
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> The MD5Hash class has a really bad hash function, that will cause most most
> md5s to hash to 0xFFFFFFxx leaving only the low order byte as meaningful. The
> problem comes from the automatic sign extension when promoting from byte to
> int.
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