Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:45:11 +0100 | From | Martin Mares <> | Subject | Re: Finding hardlinks |
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Hello!
> High probability is all you have. Cosmic radiation hitting your > computer will more likly cause problems, than colliding 64bit inode > numbers ;)
No.
If you assign 64-bit inode numbers randomly, 2^32 of them are sufficient to generate a collision with probability around 50%.
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