At 10:54 AM 11/08/01 -0800, Andrew Ho wrote: >For example, say your keys are e-mail addresses and you just want to use >an MD5 hash to spread your data files over directories so that no one >directory has too many files in it. Say your original key is >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (hex encoded MD5 hash of this is RfbmPiuRLyPGGt3oHBagt). >Instead of just storing the key in the file >R/Rf/Rfb/Rfbm/RfbmPiuRLyPGGt3oHBagt.dat, store the key in the file >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Presto... collisions are impossible.
That has the nice side effect that I can run through the directory tree and get the key for every file. I do need a way to read every key in the store. Order is not important. Bill Moseley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
