Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: fs inode lookup | Date | Mon, 16 Nov 1998 21:56:34 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <74yA6Ko$4iB@ao.morpork.shnet.org>, A. Ott writes: +----- | For consistency checks in RSBAC I am looking for a way to lookup (or at | least check existence of) fs inodes on devices. +--->8
Gak! RSBAC is likely to be rather incompatible with AFS in that case... inodes are kludged to make Unix happy; the AFS "address space" uses 4-tuples which are much larger than an inode number and there is no usable device number. Which means that inode numbers are often duplicated. I recently saw a bug report about Solaris ld.so, which assumes it can treat device/i-number pairs as unique when it's literally impossible to produce a unique ID for an AFS file which will fit into a device/i-number pair, so it gets confused if two different shared libraries in an AFS volume get hashed to the same i-number.
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