Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 07:46:43 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: reichert@internet.com Subject: Re: unlink by inodes? Message-ID: <199612190646.HAA26525@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612190418.PAA22239@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> from michael butler at "Dec 19, 96 03:18:40 pm"
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As michael butler wrote: > > Is there a way of unlinking a file, given it's _inode_ ? I was > > exploring news expiration alternatives, and was wondering how to > > avoid the overhead of path -> inode lookup... > > Consider that you must find each directory referencing this inode in order > to remove the (possibly multiple) entries pointing to it, ...short of running clri(8) and fsck(8). :-)) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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