On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:35:22AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Discrete Mathematics Question; how did the samba developers conclude that the > default mangling method "hash" results in a probability-of-name-clash of > 1/1300? > > Please note, I am not looking for samba solutions here, just intensely > curious on how this number was solved for. > > For instance, > > Q: What is considered the sample space of all possible file names here, were > the "-" and "_" taken into account? > > Q: Are we considering all possible filename are equally likely to occur? > > Jeremy A, perhaps you know?
Tridge did the original calculation, maybe he remembers. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
