Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:45:43 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Long, Scott" <scott_long@btc.adaptec.com>, 'Garrett Wollman' <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Arch question for a UDF FS driver Message-ID: <20010301214543.D483@hand.dotat.at> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010301084659.65459C-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <200103010510.WAA16907@usr05.primenet.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010301084659.65459C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > >So my temptation here is the same as Terry's -- the concept of an "inode >number" is fairly dated in that it applies poorly, if at all, to modern >file systems (even 1980's file systems). There are, unfortunately, a few >apps that make use of the inode number returned by stat -- generally to >try and detect hard links (I think tar does this). Another use for the inode number is to uniquely identify files on the system: Apache uses this to generate Etags (i.e. entity tags). Tony. -- f.a.n.finch fanf@covalent.net dot@dotat.at MALIN HEBRIDES: EAST OR SOUTHEAST, BUT CYCLONIC IN MALIN AT FIRST, 3 INCREASING 4 OR 5. SNOW SHOWERS. MAINLY GOOD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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