Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 May 1999 12:38:13 +0530 (IST) | From | K K Biswas <> | Subject | Re: ext2 warning in Linux 2.2.7 |
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On Wed, 5 May 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > > On Wed, 5 May 1999, Steve Dodd wrote: > > > NTFS has a 48bit 'inode number' (the FILE record number) which lasts until a > > file is deleted (where deleted = 0 hard links); it can then be reused, but > > there is also a 16bit 'generation number' (the sequence number in the FILE > > record) which is incremented when the inode is reused. So it should be easy to > > do something there. > > Aha. Steve, I didn't really look into NTFS driver's guts (mostly since > it's R/O and thus all, erm, fun with rename()/unlink()/rmdir() went > without touching it). IIRC it's an FFS-derivative with B-trees used > wherever possible. What are you using for inumbers? > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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