Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 14 May 2001 17:08:43 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [Re: Inodes] |
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On Mon, 14 May 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Just to clarify, this means that the "inode numbers" reported by an > msdos filesystem are a function of the disk-layout itself (i.e. they > are determined at mount time), and not numbers created when the file > is first accessed (AFAIK).
Wrong. open file. rename() it to another directory. truncate it to zero. write to it. ->i_ino must have stayed they same. _Nothing_ on-disk that would be related to that file had stayed the same. FAT simply doesn't allow inode numbers as functions of disk layout.
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