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From: "Peter Wächtler" <pwaechtler@loewe-komp.de>
To: frank.van.maarseveen@altium.nl
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: restoring hard linked files from zisofs/iso9660 w. RR
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:28:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C515D7F.3145102E@loewe-komp.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020125135545.A28897@espoo.tasking.nl>

Frank van Maarseveen schrieb:
> 
> This doesn't seem to work due to inode number differences. Is
> this a fundamental problem or can it be solved somehow, e.g.
> by an attribute which refers to a sort of "original" inode
> number?
> 
> or by a more advanced inode number synthesis in fs/isofs?
> 

Don't know about isofs, but hardlinks do not use an inode.
It's just another entry in a directory pointing to a "used"
inode (there is another entry refering to the same inode)

fast symlinks do occupy an inode, symlinks an inode + 1 diskblock.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-25 13:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-25 12:55 restoring hard linked files from zisofs/iso9660 w. RR Frank van Maarseveen
2002-01-25 13:28 ` Peter Wächtler [this message]
2002-01-25 17:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-28 16:07   ` Frank van Maarseveen
2002-01-28 18:46     ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-28 19:43     ` H. Peter Anvin

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