Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [Re: Inodes] | Date | Mon, 14 May 2001 18:02:39 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The inode numbers are "invented" by the MS-DOS filesystem driver. In > the particular case of the "msdos" driver I believe it uses the > location of the directory entry (the functional equivalent of the > inode) on disk.
They are generated basically at random with a uniqueness test and may change once nobody is referencing the inode. Directory entry breaks across rename.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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