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Subject: Re: [9fans] compare-by-hash
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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 21:57:44 -0400
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| 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.