Re: CD writing in future Linux (stirring up a hornets' nest)
From: Christopher Friesen
Date: Fri Feb 10 2006 - 10:12:15 EST
Joerg Schilling wrote:
"Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There's nothing there that says the mapping cannot change with
time...just that it has to be unique.
If it changes over the runtime of a program, it is not unique from the
view of that program.
That depends on what "uniquely identified" actually means.
One possible definition is that at any time, a particular path maps to a
single unique st_ino/st_dev tuple.
The other possibility (and this is what you seem to be advocating) is
that a st_ino/st_dev tuple always maps to the same file over the entire
runtime of the system.
This second possibility seems easily disproved. If you delete and
recreate files on a filesystem (assuming nobody has open files in the
filesystem), at some point a new file will end up with the same inode as
an old (deleted) file. The two files are different, but have the same
st_ino/st_dev tuple.
This leaves the first possibility as the only choice...
Chris
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