Messages in this thread | | | From | "Andrew E. Mileski" <> | Subject | Re: VFS | Date | Sun, 16 Nov 1997 15:16:41 -0500 (EST) |
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> > The only thing changing inode numbers screws up are the "ls -i" > > output (the inode info is meaningless), and VFS messages that > > refer to inode numbers. > > That's certainly not the only thing that changing inode numbers screws > up. If you were following the NFS thread: the filehandle given to the > client might be kept while the server machine is rebooted.
This only applies to NFS. It doesn't apply to a locally mounted file system.
> I also think some of the GNU utilities make use of the inode > numbers. They are not meaningless, in the way they are often used.
I never stated inode numbers were meaningless outside the kernel, but the output of "ls -i" is meaningless when using virtual inode numbers.
-- Andrew E. Mileski mailto:aem@netcom.ca
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