Re: [prepatch] address_space-based writeback

Billy O'Connor
2002-04-30T13:24:06Z

On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 03:19:17PM -0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Why do we have to stich to concept of inode *numbers*?
> Because there are inode numbers in traditional Unix filesystems?

like much of unix it's been there forever and has become such a natural
concept in people's heads that to change it now seems unthinkable.

much like the missing e in creat().

Wasn't that the one thing Ken Thompson said he would do differently
if he had it to do all over(unix)?