> Well, the usual Unix guarantee is that for the lifetime of a single file,
> (device,inode) uniquely identifies it.
Not true for AFS.
> For example, Nethack save files store the inode number so they can't be
> (easily) copied. Qmail uses the inode number to generate unique filenames.
> Various backup and archive utilities use (device,inode) comparisons to
> detect hard links.
[snip]
> Frankly, it's a hard problem. In VFAT, don't directory entries get
> shuffled when they're renamed, in case the new long name requires more
> slots to store than are available at the old location?
In Linux implementation - always.
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