Install only offers ext2/3?

Maynard Kuona knxmay001 at mail.uct.ac.za
Fri Oct 17 02:15:09 UTC 2003


Gordon Messmer wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
>
>>
>> Its at your own risk because its not subject to serious testing with 
>> things
>> like the improvements and 2.5 backport code. Not because reiserfs is
>> intrinsically unstable or flawed. 
>
>
> I'd heard some discussions that indicated that ReiserFS doesn't check 
> for hash collisions in its directories, and that there was a non-zero 
> probability that a new file would replace an older file even though 
> their names did not match.  It seemed a little incredible.  Is that 
> claim now untrue?  Was it ever true?
>
>
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I heard this is true, but the chances are very remote. However, on a 
system with lots of files, the chances become greater.





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