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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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