Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? | Date | Sun, 13 Aug 2000 23:26:24 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > If it has the same inode number lots of other stuff breaks so I fear it doesnt > > Ehh.. The "lots of stuff breaks" is, I assume, basically again just "tar". > Nothing else really ever tends to care about inode numbers.
NFS, a whole pile of other tools like find, old style pwd. Constant inode numbers are not a big issue (msdos showed that), duplicating them does cause a confusion or two.
> But apparently that's the choice the HFS filesystem has made. Shades of > Windows, in my opinion: "yeah, we know it is broken, but we preferred some > hard-to-trigger filesystem corruption to breaking a legacy program that > couldn't understand the new filesystem features".
I doubt the author realised it had races. Its not a well documented piece of the kernel.
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