> I'm working at the moment on an extension to the linux filesystems
> (supporting hard links). The goal is to provide a library allowing the
> association of a unique key number to any file in the filesystems
> mounted on a given machine. When this is done, this key can be used
> to
I thought that major:minor:inode# is expected to be such unique
number. (Of course this is not true in some cases, but genereally
should be :-).
> The idea is to be able to associate information to any file in the
> filesystems, without constraint on the directory the file is stored in
> or the name it is given. Another goal is to provide a simple mechanism
> by which the information stored in a database is maintained up to date
> (i.e. can be made sensitive to file/key deletion).
What is this expected to be good for?
Pavel
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