On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Adam Morrison wrote:
> What most of you are missing in your zealotness is that the discussed
> service is based on reparse points, a new technology in Windows 2000.
>
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> ...if this is indeed the case, then this is cool
> technology -- mainly because it works in a shipping product, compared to
> UNIX filesystem stacking implementations. Otherwise, it would greatly
> diminish the technical usefulness of this idea, and turn it into something
> of a system call trapping look-alike.
Hurd is a shipping product too, and it's got translators, which do this
kind of thing. Much cleaner, because the "kernel modules" are strictly
user-space constructs, without needing root (or administrator) privileges.
> > Also, not that if hash is less than filesize, there's non-null chance that
> > the signature will bind files that arem't identical - which means, it's
> > unusable for any serious data storage unless it compares files bit-bit
> > every time.
>
> That's a stupid assertion to make if you don't know what sort of
> hash they're using. Do you?
Please learn basic combinatorics. It doesn't matter what kind of hash they
use.
is-there-a-mathematician-in-the-building-ly y'rs, Z.
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