Dag-Erling Smorgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Why a prime number? All you need is an even spread, and given that
>> user IDs are usually allocated sequentially any modulus will do.
>
>Because a prime number is less likely to cause an imbalance in where
>files are actually stored on disk - just like you want an odd (and
>preferably prime) stripe size on RAIDs to (amongst other reasons)
>avoid having all the superblock backups end up on the same disk.
That's another situation in which the collision rate is very low.
I still think any number of about the right size will do.
Tony.
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