>You do realize that the age of the universe is only on the order of >around 10^18 seconds, do you? Even if you had a trillion CPUs each >chugging along at 3.0 GHz for all this time, the number of processor >cycles you will have executed cumulatively is only on the order 10^40, >still 37 orders of magnitude lower than the chance for a random hash >collision. >
Suppose you find a weakness in a specific hash algorithm; you use this to create hash collisions and now imagined you store the hash collisions in a zfs dataset with dedup enabled using the same hash algorithm..... Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
