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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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