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SubjectRe: ISO-9660 Rock Ridge gives different links different inums
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On 10 January 2003 10:56, Peter Chubb wrote:
> >>>>> "Denis" == Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
> >>>>> writes:
>
> Denis> On 10 January 2003 05:34, Peter Chubb wrote:
> >> Preferably, all the inumbers for the same file would point to the
> >> same directory entry; but I can see no easy way to do that.
> >> Keeping an in-memory table for files with multiple links might be
> >> the best way, as there aren't that many on a typical filesystem.
>
> Denis> And what will happen on a non-typical filesystem with 1
> million Denis> hardlinks?
>
> Denis> The root of the problem is a fundamental layering violation in
> Denis> traditional Unix filesystems: inode numbers should NOT be
> Denis> visible to userspace. Userspace just needs a way to tell
> Denis> hardlinks from separate files, that's all. Exposing inumbers
> Denis> does that, but creates tons of problems for filesystems which
> Denis> do NOT have such a concept.
>
> The problem is that in Unix the fundamental identity of a file is
> the tuple (blkdev, inum); names are merely indices (links) that
> resolve to that tuple.

You are right. It is designed this way. This design is wrong.

> Personally, I'd swap to a pair of system
> calls to map name to (blkdev, inum), and open(blkdev, inum). Think
> of the inode number as a unique within-filesystem index.

This does not fix the design.
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