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From: Andrew McGregor <andrew@indranet.co.nz>
To: Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>, eric@andante.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ISO-9660 Rock Ridge gives different links different inums
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:23:31 +1300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1345590000.1042169011@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15902.14667.489252.346007@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au>



--On Friday, January 10, 2003 14:08:59 +1100 Peter Chubb 
<peter@chubb.wattle.id.au> wrote:

>
> In linux 2.5.54, multiple links to the same file on a rock-ridge CD
> have different inode numbers.  This confuses cpio, tar and cp -ra
> because the multiple links are each copied separately as a single file.
>
> It'll probably also confuse NFS, but I haven't tried that.

Shouldn't do, but it will probably make the buffer cache on the server less 
effective.

> Currently the inode number appears to be the offset in bytes from the
> start of the file system to the iso directory entry.  Files with multiple
> directory entries (i.e., links) therefore have different inums.
>
> I don't know enough about the ISO9660 standard to be sure what's best
> to do about this.

Change it to be the offset to the data area, which should be the same for 
all of them?

>
> --
> Dr Peter Chubb				    peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au
> You are lost in a maze of BitKeeper repositories, all almost the same.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-10  3:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-10  3:08 Peter Chubb
2003-01-10  3:23 ` Andrew McGregor [this message]
2003-01-10  3:34   ` Peter Chubb
2003-01-10  6:34     ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-01-10  8:56       ` Peter Chubb
2003-01-10  8:54         ` Denis Vlasenko
2003-01-10 15:58         ` Horst von Brand
2003-01-15 21:07           ` Mark H. Wood
2003-01-15 21:28             ` Jesse Pollard
2003-01-13 22:16     ` Bill Davidsen
2003-01-13 23:10       ` Peter Chubb

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