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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Bug 136] New: FSID returned from statvfs always 0]
Date: 9 Dec 2002 14:15:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <at34lg$gck$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021204032511.GA7646@win.tue.nl

Followup to:  <20021204032511.GA7646@win.tue.nl>
By author:    Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.fs.devel
> 
> The general idea is that f_fsid contains some random stuff such that
> the pair (f_fsid,ino) uniquely determines a file.
> 

This, of course, is the exact POSIX definition of the st_dev part of
struct stat: (st_dev, st_ino) uniquely identifies the file.

	-hpa
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-12-09 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-03 23:53 [Fwd: [Bug 136] New: FSID returned from statvfs always 0] Andrew Morton
2002-12-04  3:11 ` Stephen Lord
2002-12-04  3:25 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-12-04  4:09   ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-04 18:00     ` Bryan Henderson
2002-12-09 22:15   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-12-09 23:04     ` Andries Brouwer
2002-12-18  5:15       ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-18 16:25         ` Bryan Henderson
2002-12-18 20:18           ` H. Peter Anvin

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