Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Apr 1999 21:50:14 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: archive filesystem interface |
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Hi!
> I'm working at the moment on an extension to the linux filesystems > (supporting hard links). The goal is to provide a library allowing the > association of a unique key number to any file in the filesystems > mounted on a given machine. When this is done, this key can be used > to
I thought that major:minor:inode# is expected to be such unique number. (Of course this is not true in some cases, but genereally should be :-).
> The idea is to be able to associate information to any file in the > filesystems, without constraint on the directory the file is stored in > or the name it is given. Another goal is to provide a simple mechanism > by which the information stored in a database is maintained up to date > (i.e. can be made sensitive to file/key deletion).
What is this expected to be good for?
Pavel -- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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