From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Mar 1 13:46:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from hand.dotat.at (sfo-gw.covalent.net [207.44.198.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78C4B37B718; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 13:46:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fanf@dotat.at) Received: from fanf by hand.dotat.at with local (Exim 3.20 #3) id 14YatL-000NAM-00; Thu, 01 Mar 2001 21:45:43 +0000 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:45:43 +0000 From: Tony Finch To: Robert Watson Cc: Terry Lambert , "Long, Scott" , 'Garrett Wollman' , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Arch question for a UDF FS driver Message-ID: <20010301214543.D483@hand.dotat.at> References: <200103010510.WAA16907@usr05.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: Organization: Covalent Technologies, Inc Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Watson wrote: > >So my temptation here is the same as Terry's -- the concept of an "inode >number" is fairly dated in that it applies poorly, if at all, to modern >file systems (even 1980's file systems). There are, unfortunately, a few >apps that make use of the inode number returned by stat -- generally to >try and detect hard links (I think tar does this). Another use for the inode number is to uniquely identify files on the system: Apache uses this to generate Etags (i.e. entity tags). Tony. -- f.a.n.finch fanf@covalent.net dot@dotat.at MALIN HEBRIDES: EAST OR SOUTHEAST, BUT CYCLONIC IN MALIN AT FIRST, 3 INCREASING 4 OR 5. SNOW SHOWERS. MAINLY GOOD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message