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Re: Can i rely on inode numbers?

Subject: Re: Can i rely on inode numbers?
From: Quinn <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:47:47 +0100

At 11:25 +0200 11/4/08, Lutz Helwing wrote:

my question is if i can be sure that inode numbers definitely don't change. Background is i want to keep a list of files but instead of storing paths just keeping the inode numbers and to reference to these files with the stored numbers.

Do you care if the inode numbers persist across unmount/remount? If not, it's reasonable to assumes that the numbers persist; if a VFS plug-in didn't maintain that invariant, all sorts of things would go wrong.

OTOH, if you care about unmount/remount case, things get more complex (-:

S+E
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Quinn "The Eskimo!"                    <http://www.apple.com/developer/>
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware
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