> Blesson Paul writes:
>
> > This is an another doubt related to VFS. I want to know
> > wheather all files are assigned their inode number at the
> > mounting time itself or inodes are assigned to files upon
> > accessing only
>
> That would depend on what type of filesystem you use.
> For ext2
Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 May 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> > Correct. At least at one time it used the offset of the directory entry
> > when that particular inode was last "seen" by the kernel... meaning that
> > when it finally dropped out of the inode cache, it would change ino
On Mon, 14 May 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Correct. At least at one time it used the offset of the directory entry
> when that particular inode was last "seen" by the kernel... meaning that
> when it finally dropped out of the inode cache, it would change inode
> numbers. I thought that was
Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 May 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> > Just to clarify, this means that the "inode numbers" reported by an
> > msdos filesystem are a function of the disk-layout itself (i.e. they
> > are determined at mount time), and not numbers created when the file
> > is
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Just to clarify, this means that the "inode numbers" reported by an
> msdos filesystem are a function of the disk-layout itself (i.e. they
> are determined at mount time), and not numbers created when the file
> is first accessed (AFAIK).
Wrong. ope
HPA writes:
> Blesson Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 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 as
Blesson Paul writes:
> This is an another doubt related to VFS. I want to know
> wheather all files are assigned their inode number at the
> mounting time itself or inodes are assigned to files upon
> accessing only
That would depend on what type of filesystem you use.
For ext2, inode numbers ar
> 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.
They are generated basically at random with a uniqueness test and may cha
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By author:Blesson Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 partiti
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
Blesson Paul wrote:
> Hi
> This is an another doubt related to VFS. I want to know
> wheather all files are assigned their inode number at the mounting time itself
> or inodes are assigned to files upon accessing only
er..
inode numbers are assigned at file creation time.
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