From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 03:02:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 03:02:02 -0400 Received: from cc361913-a.flrtn1.occa.home.com ([24.0.193.171]:3203 "EHLO mirai.cx") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 03:01:57 -0400 Message-ID: <3AFF82DE.54CE69D2@mirai.cx> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 00:01:50 -0700 From: J Sloan Organization: Mirai Consulting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4-ac9 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Blesson Paul CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Inodes In-Reply-To: <20010514065650.11112.qmail@nw176.netaddress.usa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Blesson Paul wrote: > Hi > This is an another doubt related to VFS. I want to know > wheather all files are assigned their inode number at the mounting time itself > or inodes are assigned to files upon accessing only er.. inode numbers are assigned at file creation time. cu jjs