On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:55:29PM +0100, Stefan Traby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:12:18PM +0100,  Marc A. Lehmann  wrote:
>  
> >    ReiserFS: hdg2: warning: reiserfs_add_entry: Congratulations! we have 
> > got hash function screwed up
> > 
> > Sure sounds like a filesystem bug to me. Is this 2.6.10-rc3-specific or a
> > generic bug in handling hash collisions?
> 
> I can confirm that with 2.6.10.
> It is independent of hash function (r5, rupasov, tea) used.

Interesting, I would have hoped it's not so easy to generate
collisions. Now that a debian package creates collisions, this issue has
become very real.

Another note: It seems that the error returned is wrong. I would expect
ENOSPC if reiserfs runs out of (key-)space, not EBUSY or whatever it
returns.

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