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To: Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: File change notification (enhanced dnotify) 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:41:46 EST."
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:19:02 -0400
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM> said:
> R?diger Klaehn wrote:
> | My original approach assumed that inode numbers were unique, and it
> | would have worked with hard links. But I think it is much more important
> | to have a mechanism that works for all file systems than to solve the
> | problem of hard links.

> Inode numbers are guaranteed to be unique on a given filesystem other
> than for hard links..  Where is this assumption broken otherwise?

On some non-Unix filesystems there isn't an equivalent to (invariant) inode
numbers.
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