Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:42:48 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: glibc is the culprit - Re: vfs.txt and i_ino |
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Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > At 15:40 12/02/02, Guest section DW wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:04:13PM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > > > It is probably best to avoid giving real files ino 0. > > > > > > Problem is: It is NOT a real file. It's the '$MFT'. It is normally > > > hidden from userspace, but with a special option it becomes (partly, > > > as we've seen) visible. > > > >But I do not know anything about '$MFT'. > > It is basically a normal file with inode number 0 (this is defined in the > ntfs specifications) which contains all metadata concerning all inodes > (including the metadata describing the $MFT itself[1]).
Or in Unix-speak,
$MFT == inode table
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