Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 20:38:22 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Assar Westerlund <assar@sics.se> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portable way to compare struct stat's? Message-ID: <3837692E.3EDEFBF1@softweyr.com> References: <XFMail.991118185611.jdp@polstra.com> <3836DF98.9A84EC44@newsguy.com> <3836F873.D3B989FE@softweyr.com> <v04210107b45cb84c49f1@[128.113.24.47]> <5l1z9kn25i.fsf@foo.sics.se>
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Assar Westerlund wrote:
>
> Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes:
> > At 12:37 PM -0700 11/20/99, 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.
>
> Why can't a file system have more than 2^32 files?
Because if it does you can't stat it! There's a great case of circular
reasoning for you. ;^)
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