--On 28 June 2008 07:39:55 -0400 Mag Gam <magawake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, I guess this is more for a theoretical question. How the filename is determined if its not in the inode.
It isn't. There is no easy way to get back from an inode number to a filename (or filenames, as there can be more than one - think how hard links work, multiple directory entries (and hence filenames) pointing to one inode) apart from recurse through the entire directory tree and find which directory entries contain that inode number. That's because there is (fsck type operations apart) in general no need to go from an inode number to the list of directory entries that point to it. Indeed some inodes can have no directory entry pointing to them (e.g. if you open a file, then unlink it (with rm) before closing it). This isn't ext3 specific, this is the way UNIX file systems work. I suggest doing some background reading on UNIX filesystems in general rather than asking on an ext3 specific list. For a very simple intro see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode Alex _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
