From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Qid path generation From: "Russ Cox" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 23:05:48 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9edfc902-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 The 64-bit hash for qids is a good idea except that exportfs and programs like it assume that the top 16 bits are fairly low entropy so they can be renamed as necessary to present many 9P servers to a single client. Taking 48 bits of it will give you 2^24, which is halfway between the two and might be enough to appease both camps. Russ