Re: inodes are no longer constant across VFAT mounts at kernel 2.2.14

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 09:56:42 EST

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> [1.] One line summary of the problem:
> inodes are no longer constant across VFAT mounts at kernel 2.2.14

Yep. Its quite legal behaviour. Keeping constant inodes is near impossible
and the attempt to do so in older 2.2.x is the cause of a pile of fat handling
bugs that are now dead and buried

Alan

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