Re: Finding hardlinks

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Thu Dec 28 2006 - 11:35:42 EST



On Dec 28 2006 10:54, Jeff Layton wrote:
>
> Sorry, I should qualify that statement. A lot of filesystems don't have
> permanent i_ino values (mostly pseudo filesystems -- pipefs, sockfs, /proc
> stuff, etc). For those, the idea is to try to make sure we use 32 bit values
> for them and to ensure that they are uniquely assigned. I unfortunately can't
> do much about filesystems that do have permanent inode numbers.

Anyway, this could probably come in handy for unionfs too.


-`J'
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