Re: [Iscsitarget-devel] Re: iscsi target VPD page 0x83

[Ming Z. <mi...@el...>]

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 05:46, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> From: Christophe Varoqui <chr...@fr...>
> Subject: Re: [Iscsitarget-devel] Re: iscsi target VPD page 0x83
> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:27:29 +0200
> 
> > glad to see you work on the issue.
> 
> Now I have some time. I want to fix several unsolved issues including
> this and release the next version.
> 
> 
> > However, it would *really* be nicer to have shorter ids.
> > What about recursively crc32 this id to trim the binary part to 32 bits ?
> 
> I guess that crc32 is not designed for such purposes (avoidance
> collision). How about md5 (128-bit output) ?
> 
i like md5 and kernel has this md5 support anyway. so we can make use of
it directly.

> Anyway, I have no preference in the matter and this is a temporary
> solution. So if you prefer the crc32 solution, I'll go with it.
> 
> 
> > What was your opinion on the id format suggested by Pyx (with portal id) ?
> 
> I missed the suggestion. Please give me the pointer.
> 
> 
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