Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [Re: Inodes] | Date | 14 May 2001 09:04:46 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20010514073547.12678.qmail@nwcst284.netaddress.usa.net> By author: Blesson Paul <blessonpaul@usa.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hi J > You misunderstood my question. Let take an example. > Let I have a msdos partition. No msdos files has inode numbers, right. Let I > mount that msdos partition. Then what happens, That is my question. Will the > inode numbers are assigned to all msdos files at mounting time itself >
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.
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