Re: VFS
Andrew E. Mileski (aem@netcom.ca)
Sun, 16 Nov 1997 15:16:41 -0500 (EST)
> > The only thing changing inode numbers screws up are the "ls -i"
> > output (the inode info is meaningless), and VFS messages that
> > refer to inode numbers.
>
> That's certainly not the only thing that changing inode numbers screws
> up. If you were following the NFS thread: the filehandle given to the
> client might be kept while the server machine is rebooted.
This only applies to NFS. It doesn't apply to a locally mounted
file system.
> I also think some of the GNU utilities make use of the inode
> numbers. They are not meaningless, in the way they are often used.
I never stated inode numbers were meaningless outside the kernel,
but the output of "ls -i" is meaningless when using virtual inode
numbers.
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