On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 08:40:51 -0800, Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fixing hash collisions in V3 to do them the way V4 does them would > create more bugs and user disruption than the current bug we have all > lived with for 5 years until now. If someone thinks it is a small > change to fix it, send me a patch. Better by far to fix bugs in V4, > which is pretty stable these days.
As I understeand, tea hash is based on tea (tiny encryption aglo), which was the cause of xbox-linux sucess, and few others. Pleas consider updating it to use xxtea algo. I know, it won't be backward compatbile, but well. Where is about all the others, I don't use them, and for me tea is the only resonable hash to use on systems where I have very much great number of files per directory (to name it, Maildirs). Never had such problem myself, every hash function has a weaknes. Nothing new. But providing another, much stronger hash, or correct tea hash to use xxtea, would be something good indeed. -- GJ
