hi ! On 11 Oct 2006 09:17:11 -0000, rohit hooda <rohit13hooda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>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 ? Well, as you said there are two different file systems, hence, same inode >number on two different file systems will represent two altogether different entities. >given the inode number in this case, how you can reach the right file ? the device numbers will be different. So, the (device no + inode number) >combination will take you to the right file.
do you know of any example of code that access files by their inode numbers ? thanks a lot jakko
> >thanks !!! >jakko Thanks, -Rohit > >-- >Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. >Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ >FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ >
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