On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, John Horne wrote:
[Apologies for cross-posting from the opensuse list]
Hello,
I was wondering if someone could tell me why there is a difference in
the reported inode number of a file from the 'ls' command, and from the
'rpm' command. For example, using the /usr/bin/wget file, I get:
ls -i /usr/bin/wget
365523 /usr/bin/wget
rpm -qf --qf '[%{FILEINODES}:%{FILENAMES}\n]' /usr/bin/wget|
grep ':/usr/bin/wget$'
157816006:/usr/bin/wget
I realise that prelinking will cause the inode number to change, but
even without prelinking the numbers reported are not the same.
Surely the rpm package manager database will report the inode number of
the installed file. Running 'rpm -Vf /usr/bin/wget' verifies the file as
okay, although as far as I am aware rpm verification does not include
testing the inode number.
Hysterical as it is, the inode numbers in packages are from the host used
to build the package so they'll never match what you have installed. The
inode numbers in packages are only used for rpm internal hardlink
handling.
- Panu -
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