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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:38:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/inetd builtins.c
Message-ID:  <200011292138.QAA19599@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <p04330101b64a34131126@[128.113.24.47]>
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<<On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 23:28:52 -0500, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> said:

> Given that there are already distributed file systems which CANNOT
> give a unique device+inode pair for a given file (due to the limited
> range of the device and inode variables), how can we stick to the
> POSIX definition?

You have to invent values.  I haven't looked recently at the actual
requirement; it's possible that a 64-bit hash would work.  (I'm not
sure if the actual requirement is `distinct files implies distinct
numbers' or `same files implies same numbers', and that would make a
difference.

> Claiming that such a filesystem is "broken" misses the point.

Protocol != implementation.

-GAWollman



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