Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: File change notification (enhanced dnotify) | Date | Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:19:02 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM> said: > Rüdiger Klaehn wrote: > | My original approach assumed that inode numbers were unique, and it > | would have worked with hard links. But I think it is much more important > | to have a mechanism that works for all file systems than to solve the > | problem of hard links.
> Inode numbers are guaranteed to be unique on a given filesystem other > than for hard links.. Where is this assumption broken otherwise?
On some non-Unix filesystems there isn't an equivalent to (invariant) inode numbers. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - 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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