Re: Implementing Meta File information in Linux

Jens-Uwe Mager (jum@anubis.han.de)
Mon, 14 Sep 1998 22:05:05 GMT

In article <mng==199809141747.NAA25941@dcl.MIT.EDU>, "Theodore Y. Ts'o"
<tytso@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> That's easy to fix. You just index the external store by inode number,
> and now renames are no longer a problem.

Inode numbers are not persistent enough, they are re-used on deletes. Thus
if you look up an inode in your external store you might reference meta
data from an already deleted file.

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Jens-Uwe Mager <pgp-mailto:62CFDB25>


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