Messages in this thread |  | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: [prepatch] address_space-based writeback | Date | Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:40:38 +1000 |
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On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:15:23 +1000, john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net> wrote: >probably because there is software out there relying on them being >numbers and being able to do 'if(inum_a == inum_b) { same_file(); }' >as appropriate. i can't think of a use for such a construct other than >preserving hardlinks in archives (does tar do this?) but i'm sure there >are others
Any program that tries to preserve or detect hard links. cp, mv (files a and b are the same file). tar, cpio, rsync -H, du, etc.
The assumption that inode numbers are unique within a mount point is one of the reasons that NFS export does not cross mount points by default. man exports, look for 'nohide'.
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