From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [prepatch] address_space-based writeback
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:40:38 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9595.1020174038@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:15:23 +1000." <20020430131523.GA22705@higherplane.net>
On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 23:15:23 +1000,
john slee <indigoid@higherplane.net> wrote:
>probably because there is software out there relying on them being
>numbers and being able to do 'if(inum_a == inum_b) { same_file(); }'
>as appropriate. i can't think of a use for such a construct other than
>preserving hardlinks in archives (does tar do this?) but i'm sure there
>are others
Any program that tries to preserve or detect hard links. cp, mv (files
a and b are the same file). tar, cpio, rsync -H, du, etc.
The assumption that inode numbers are unique within a mount point is
one of the reasons that NFS export does not cross mount points by
default. man exports, look for 'nohide'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-30 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-10 11:21 Andrew Morton
2002-04-10 11:34 ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-10 19:16 ` Andrew Morton
2002-04-10 20:53 ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-10 22:12 ` Jan Harkes
2002-04-10 21:44 ` Andrew Morton
2002-04-10 22:56 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-10 22:31 ` Andrew Morton
2002-04-11 20:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-11 20:41 ` Alexander Viro
2002-04-11 21:27 ` Andrew Morton
2002-04-11 22:55 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-04-11 22:49 ` Andrew Morton
2002-04-12 0:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-11 23:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-04-11 23:22 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-11 23:03 ` Andrew Morton
2002-04-12 4:19 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-04-12 1:15 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-12 1:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-04-12 7:57 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-27 15:53 ` Jan Harkes
2002-04-28 3:03 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-29 9:03 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-04-29 11:11 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-29 11:59 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-04-29 12:34 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-04-29 13:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-04-30 17:19 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-30 13:15 ` john slee
2002-04-30 13:24 ` Billy O'Connor
2002-04-30 13:36 ` jlnance
2002-04-30 13:40 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2002-05-01 19:18 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-02 8:49 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-05-03 15:35 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-03 12:49 ` Helge Hafting
2002-05-03 22:47 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-03 21:50 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2002-05-05 0:46 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-05-03 7:56 ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-03 14:48 ` Rob Landley
2002-05-05 0:42 ` Denis Vlasenko
2002-04-30 16:12 ` Peter Wächtler
2002-04-10 23:02 ` Jan Harkes
2002-04-10 19:29 ` Jeremy Jackson
2002-04-10 19:41 ` Andrew Morton
2002-04-15 8:47 ` Andrew Morton
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