heheheh, ok, I'll stop after this. ;-) Sorry for going on so long, but it was fun.
In 2007, IDC estimated the size of the digital universe in 2010 would be 1 zettabyte. (10^21 bytes) This would be 2.5*10^18 blocks of 4000 bytes. http://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/expanding-digital-idc-white-pa per.pdf This means the current probability of any sha256 collision in all of the data in the whole world, using a ridiculously small block size, assuming all of the data is unique and therefore maximizing the probability of collision... 2.69 * 10^-41 ... hehehehehhe :-) It's not as unlikely as randomly picking a single atom in the whole planet, but still... _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
