From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 20 12:10:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2149A1573C for ; Sat, 20 Nov 1999 12:10:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p11-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.140]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id FAA05476; Sun, 21 Nov 1999 05:09:50 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3836FF7C.2D8236AE@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 05:07:24 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wes Peters Cc: John Polstra , Garance A Drosihn , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portable way to compare struct stat's? References: <3836DF98.9A84EC44@newsguy.com> <3836F873.D3B989FE@softweyr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters wrote: > > It's not broken in this case. 2^16 (st_dev) is certainly enough to uniquely > indentify all mounted filesystems, and 2^32 is (by definition) enough to > uniquely indentify each of the files on a filesystem. Discussions (with > strong, valid reasons) about expanding the size of ino_t should be carried > out on -arch. Just to expand a little bit more, some distributed filesystems *do not* have a unique identifier like the inode. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Then again maybe not going to heaven would be a blessing. Relkin liked a certain amount of peace and harmony, since there'd been a pronounced shortage of them in his own life; however, nothing but peace and harmony, forever and forever? He wasn't sure about that. And no beer? Very dubious proposition." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message