Re: [Re: Inodes]

Alan Cox
2001-05-14T17:06:47Z

> The inode numbers are "invented" by the MS-DOS filesystem driver. In
> the particular case of the "msdos" driver I believe it uses the
> location of the directory entry (the functional equivalent of the
> inode) on disk.

They are generated basically at random with a uniqueness test and may change
once nobody is referencing the inode. Directory entry breaks across rename..