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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:21:30 +0200
From: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>
To: Horst von Brand <brand@jupiter.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
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Subject: Re: rm-ing files with open file descriptors
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 10:06:57AM +0100, you [Horst von Brand] claimed:
> 
> There are filesystems around (MSDOS, VFAT) that haven't got fixed inode
> numbers for files. There are networked filesystems where this would need
> radical changes to the server side. Some even make up inode numbers on the
> fly IIRC.

True.
 
> If in dire need, you could hack something together for <favorite
> filesystem> by groveling over the disk image. e2fsprogs' libraries should
> come handy...

Well, I'll have to come up with the dire need first - or any need indeed :).
Just playing around with the idea.

IIRC, Stephen Tweedie had made such a patch for ext2.


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