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Re: inode allocation: msg#00023

file-systems.ext2.devel

Subject: Re: inode allocation

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 00:38:10 +0000 (GMT)
"Drew P. Vogel" <dvogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>
> >It's not a goal, but inode numbers were not intended to be used to
> >assure file uniqueness.
> Oh, ok. I guess I misunderstood the book I was reading. Thanks.

Inode numbers assure file uniqueness across a filesystem, not across
time.

>
> Regards,
> Drew Vogel

Thomas

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