On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 08:25:22PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > Plus, it's 64 bit instead of 32 bit. The 256-bit algorithms are obviously > > much, much slower and probably not right for a default, but should we > > consider making xxhash the default for Fedora Linux systems with > > btrfs? > > Is this for an integrity check? Wouldn't it be wise to use a CRC due to > its well-understood statistical properties?
I will defer to the crypto experts; from what I can see this is a relatively new algorithm but there are quite a few papers (and a lot more blogs) which reference it and it seems generally regarded to have good non-cryptographic hash properties. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
