chibenwa commented on pull request #594: URL: https://github.com/apache/james-project/pull/594#issuecomment-898233672
``` **Bloom filters** are probabilistic data structures. Here the reference prediction can produce false positives: we might skip some non referenced blobs that should have been garbage collected. However, the associated probability can be tuned and by adding a salt we can ensure subsequent runs will have different sets of false positives and thus that all blobs is eventually garbage collected. ``` Explains just that. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
