Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 05:26:50 -0600 From: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers), reichert@internet.com Subject: Re: unlink by inodes? Message-ID: <199612191126.FAA06565@friley216.res.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 19 Dec 1996 07:46:43 %2B0100. <199612190646.HAA26525@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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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). :-)) Yeah. :) You really should try to use the fs as it was intended anyway. BTW, does anyone know the status of McKusick's soft updates integration? I think this would make a lot of people happy.. --Chris Csanady > >-- >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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