On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 10:16 -0700, Rector, David wrote: > It seems to me that it should be possible to simply modify the file > entry in the filesystem such that the last inode of the first file > points to the first inode of the second file. I guess this is similar > to a "hard link", but used to join files rather than simply have > another pointer to one file. A file has one and only one inode, so that's not feasible. However the idea of "editing" the inode contents (and the inode's blocklist or bitmap) to make this work could be done in principle. In practice it looks really hairy, and highly dependant on specific implementation details of each type of filesystem. I've never heard of this being done, but who knows? Why do you need this? If it's for some special data-processing application, would it not be easier to modify the app so it could process a sequence of files? poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
