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diff --git a/doc/internals/hashing/comment_5_b0cb207a85cda5a0ff2ea71caca22c0d._comment b/doc/internals/hashing/comment_5_b0cb207a85cda5a0ff2ea71caca22c0d._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..80db7abcc --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/internals/hashing/comment_5_b0cb207a85cda5a0ff2ea71caca22c0d._comment @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="https://id.koumbit.net/anarcat" + subject="why md5sum?" + date="2015-02-13T15:59:46Z" + content=""" +why the extra processing to generate the hashing directories? + +we already have a hash here, for example, `SHA256E-s8242375--5f82490990812ad3feabb02355750710a9d94283ab256d1c691c3bf8d7d9fbe3.ogg` has a loon `5f82490990812ad3feabb02355750710a9d94283ab256d1c691c3bf8d7d9fbe3` hash. Why not use the first characters of that? This is will not change for a give file, and has a higher chance of generating collisions (which is a good thing here, because we can reuse directories). + +In other words, why aren't the hashes of `SHA256E-s8242375--5f82490990812ad3feabb02355750710a9d94283ab256d1c691c3bf8d7d9fbe3.ogg` simply `5f8/249`? --[[anarcat]] +"""]] |