Re: Inode - Kernel Mode

From: Theodore Tso
Date: Tue Jan 18 2011 - 07:48:00 EST

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On Jan 18, 2011, at 5:28 AM, Artur Baruchi wrote:

> Hi Guys.
>
> I'm able to get the inode number for a given file. Is there a way to
> get the file size, since I already have the inode ?

Not in a portable / file system independent way.

In Linux, file systems are not required to use inode numbers at all.

See: http://www.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-devel/2008-February/015805.html

-- Ted

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