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From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: Inode numbering
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> Because I didn't find sufficient informations and "try and error"
> would be incomplete (and insecure regarding the result), I'd like
> to ask the following question:
>
> Let's assume we have a directory D with an inode number i(D).
> It contains a file F with its inode number i(F).
>
> May I state that i(D) < i(F)?

usually but not always.