lkml.org 
[lkml]   [1997]   [Nov]   [16]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
From
SubjectRe: VFS
Date
> > 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

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:40    [W:0.055 / U:1.308 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site