From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] compare-by-hash
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 21:57:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030601015744.10886.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from "William K. Josephson" <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu> of "Sat, 31 May 2003 21:38:09 EDT." <20030601013809.GA94559@mero.morphisms.net>
| I'm just amused that people in general
| are often so worried about hash collisions but willing to
| tolerate common software systems which it is painfully
| obvious are far less reliable.
Agreed. Andrew Hume has written some nice usenix papers on the topic.
In my experience, it's not at all uncommon for a big cluster to flip
some bits when you aren't looking.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-01 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-31 23:58 philw
2003-06-01 0:00 ` Russ Cox
2003-06-01 1:15 ` northern snowfall
2003-06-01 0:23 ` Russ Cox
2003-06-01 1:23 ` northern snowfall
2003-06-01 0:24 ` Dan Cross
2003-05-31 23:49 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2003-06-01 5:52 ` Dan Cross
2003-06-01 8:57 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-06-01 9:06 ` lucio
2003-06-01 9:25 ` lucio
2003-06-01 15:36 ` David Presotto
2003-06-01 16:24 ` David Presotto
2003-06-02 4:14 ` lucio
2003-06-02 4:03 ` lucio
2003-06-01 22:55 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-06-01 0:28 ` William Josephson
2003-06-01 1:46 ` northern snowfall
2003-06-01 1:38 ` William K. Josephson
2003-06-01 1:57 ` Scott Schwartz [this message]
2003-06-01 2:58 ` northern snowfall
2003-06-01 2:57 ` W. Josephson
2003-06-01 4:07 ` northern snowfall
2003-06-01 15:11 ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-02 11:37 ` Sam
2003-06-02 12:41 ` boyd, rounin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-03 4:39 Andrew Simmons
2003-07-31 17:24 Joel Salomon
2003-07-31 17:50 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-07-31 17:51 ` Sape Mullender
2003-07-31 17:53 ` rog
2003-07-31 18:03 ` jmk
2003-08-01 2:45 ` Joel Salomon
2003-08-01 2:52 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-08-01 3:42 ` jmk
2003-08-01 4:12 ` Geoff Collyer
2003-08-01 15:23 ` Jack Johnson
2003-08-01 9:03 ` Anthony Mandic
2003-08-01 15:11 ` Jack Johnson
2003-08-01 9:02 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2003-05-31 23:48 Taj Khattra
2003-05-31 23:48 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-05-31 23:50 ` Charles Forsyth
2003-05-31 23:54 ` Russ Cox
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