Re: Portable way to compare struct stat's?

[Wes Peters]

"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
> 
> Wes Peters wrote:
> >
> > It's not broken in this case.  2^16 (st_dev) is certainly enough to uniquely
> > indentify all mounted filesystems, and 2^32 is (by definition) enough to
> > uniquely indentify each of the files on a filesystem.  Discussions (with
> > strong, valid reasons) about expanding the size of ino_t should be carried
> > out on -arch.
> 
> Just to expand a little bit more, some distributed filesystems *do
> not* have a unique identifier like the inode.

So then the FreeBSD client software should create one?  Do they just assign
a random number as the st_ino when stat'ing the file?

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Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
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