>I understand you cannot lookup names by inode number in general, because >that would present a security violation. Joe User should not be able to >find the name of an item that's in a directory where he does not have >permission. > > > >But, even if it can only be run by root, is there some way to lookup the >name of an object based on inode number?
Sure, that's typically how NFS works. The inode itself is not sufficient; an inode number might be recycled and and old snapshot with the same inode number may refer to a different file. Casper _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss