Re: inode numbers

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thanks a lot ppl !

On 10/12/06, Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jakko Pastuchio wrote:

> do you know of any example of code that access files by their inode
> numbers ?

NFS

The NFS clients use (superblock, inode number) to keep track
of open files, and can keep accessing the same file across a
reboot of the server.

This means the inode numbers have to be stable on the kernel
side.

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