linux-kernel - Re: Finding hardlinks

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Message-Id: <1167300352.3281.4183.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date:	Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:05:52 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	Benny Halevy <bhalevy@...asas.com>
Cc:	Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	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


> It seems like the posix idea of unique <st_dev, st_ino> doesn't
> hold water for modern file systems 

are you really sure?
and if so, why don't we fix *THAT* instead, rather than adding racy
syscalls and such that just can't really be used right...


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