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Re: HFS+ reusable node ID's

Mark Day wrote:

> In article
> <email@hidden>, John
> Siracusa <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > How does this change affect the use of HFS+ node IDs as unique,
> > path-independent identifiers?
>
> No two existing files or directories will have the same node ID at the
> same time. If you're storing away node IDs for objects that have since
> been deleted, you might get confused if you see the same ID get reused
> later for a new object (especially if one was a file and the other a
> directory).

What about remote 'aliases' to files. As I recall when someone makes a desktop
alias of some file on a remote volume, the unque number is used in reference
rather than an explicit path. Hence, a 'deleted' file in a 'never-reused' system
would cause the remote alias have a 'file(object) not found' error, rather than
potentially serving up the wrong reencarnated object...

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