linux-kernel - Re: Finding hardlinks

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Date:	Thu, 28 Dec 2006 17:26:15 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
cc:	Benny Halevy <bhalevy@...asas.com>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Jan Harkes <jaharkes@...cmu.edu>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	nfsv4@...f.org
Subject: Re: Finding hardlinks


On Dec 28 2006 10:54, Jeff Layton wrote:
>
> Sorry, I should qualify that statement. A lot of filesystems don't have
> permanent i_ino values (mostly pseudo filesystems -- pipefs, sockfs, /proc
> stuff, etc). For those, the idea is to try to make sure we use 32 bit values
> for them and to ensure that they are uniquely assigned. I unfortunately can't
> do much about filesystems that do have permanent inode numbers.

Anyway, this could probably come in handy for unionfs too.


	-`J'
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