hi ! On 10/10/06, Avishay Traeger <atraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 19:15 +0200, Jakko Pastuchio wrote: > I wonder how inodes numbers are allocated/maintainded/recycled. Usually with a bitmap (stored on disk) that says which inode numbers are free and which are used. > does every file on disk have a unique inode number (which is kept > on the disk) and that inode number never changes ? An inode number describes exactly one file on the file system. The inode number should not change. inode numbers are stored in the on-disk inode.
In that case, how do you make sure that there are no inode-number collisions between different filesystems mounted ? if every filesystem is responsible to allocate and remember its inodes, can't you reach a situation where two filesystems you mount gave the same inode number to different files ? given the inode number in this case, how you can reach the right file ? thanks !!! jakko -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
