Re: Finding hardlinks

[Martin Mares]

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%.

				Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares                          <mj@xxxxxx>   http://mj.ucw.cz/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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