On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 03:44:56PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > * Olaf van der Spek <olafvds...@gmail.com> schrieb: > > > > Well, they're an fundamental concept which sometimes *IS* significant > > > to the applications. It's very different from systems where each > > > file has exactly one name (eg. DOS/Windows) or where there're just > > > filesnames that point to opaque stream objects that can be virtually > > > anything (eg. Plan9). > > > > Sometimes, indeed. This number of times should be as low as possible. > > These cases aren't that rare. Windows, for example, tends to deny > renames on open files, as they're also identified by the filename. > (yes, there're other solutions for this problem, eg. having some > internal-only inode numbering, etc).
I would like to point out that this specific issue is why Windows needs to be rebooted so often compared to Unix systems. This is one situation where inodes really shine. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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