On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 11:41:14PM -0600,
Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net> wrote:

> In article <20030216034123.0B2DD62AA@mail.asahi-net.or.jp>,
> 	ttaka@earth.email.ne.jp (Toru TAKAMIZU) writes:
> >> - Add --with-did=last, to avoid having to create a dependendency on db3.
> >>    --with-did=last was the default with netatalk 1.5.5.
> > 
> > But according to doc/INSTALL,
> > 
> >   The last DID scheme recreates version 37b behaviour where
> >   directory id's are incrementally calculated versus the new
> >   hash method. Unfortunately for machines that have a lot of
> >   devices, and/or a lot of inodes the hash can fail with
> >   multiple directories resolving to the same DID.
> > 
> > So, some (or many?) of us feel uneasy about this.
> > What do you think about it?

> Interesting. How much is "a lot", and what's the failure mode when the
> calculation rolls over? I mainly went with that, because

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> so I thought it prudent to be conservative.

I see.

> I'd be OK with enabling it, though, for the 1.6.1 package (1.6.1 is
> promised to be out in a couple of weeks), especially if you'd like to
> submit patches to make it build.

Yes, I'd like to :)

Best,
toru