* Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/11/2009 01:34 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >Wu Fengguang<fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>Maybe this is enough for POWERTOP, however for general use, the dirty > >>type(data/metadata) and inode number may be valuable to some users? > > > >what can a user do with an inode number???? > > Inode numbers have always been visible to userspace... IIRC, tar(1) > uses the st_ino member of struct stat to detect hard links in certain > cases. ls(1) displays inode numbers with -i, find(1) looks for them > with -inum, ... Without an inode->vfs-name lookup/matching service it's of limited utility though to developers and users. So inode numbers are fine (as nicely unique physical identifiers)- as long as corresponding vfs name string is available too. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
