On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, David Luyer wrote:
> I wonder how this works with union mounts under *BSD should the inode
> number match in some file in the upper filesystem and some file somewhere else
> in the lower filesystem, not necessarily both in the relevant caches at
> the same time to even know the same inode number is used on both - silent
> breakage? Anyone on the list know? Or are some of the more significant bits
> in the inode number used to represent which filesystem?
->st_dev in addition to ->st_ino. But what makes us use the same inumber,
for fsck sake? We can easily generate unique ones, what's the problem?
Sure thing, duplicating inumber will eat a lot of stuff, but why do it at
all?
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