From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Re: Inodes]
Date: 14 May 2001 09:04:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9dovmu$eqj$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010514073547.12678.qmail@nwcst284.netaddress.usa.net>
Followup to: <20010514073547.12678.qmail@nwcst284.netaddress.usa.net>
By author: Blesson Paul <blessonpaul@usa.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hi J
> You misunderstood my question. Let take an example.
> Let I have a msdos partition. No msdos files has inode numbers, right. Let I
> mount that msdos partition. Then what happens, That is my question. Will the
> inode numbers are assigned to all msdos files at mounting time itself
>
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.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-14 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-14 7:35 [Re: Inodes] Blesson Paul
2001-05-14 16:04 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-05-14 17:02 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-14 20:53 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-14 21:08 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-14 21:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-14 21:44 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-14 22:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
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