On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 05:33:05AM -0700, Chris Gerhard wrote: > The reason for wanting to know is to try and find versions of a file.
No, there's no such guarantee. The same inode and generation number pair is extremely unlikely to be re-used, but the inode number itself is likely to be re-used. > If a file is renamed then the only way to know that the renamed file > was the same as a file in a snapshot would be if the inode numbers > matched. However for that to be reliable it would require the i-nodes > are not reused. There's also the crtime (creation time, not to be confused with ctime), which you can get with ls(1). > If they are able to be reused then when an inode number matches I > would also have to compare the real creation time which requires > looking at the extended attributes. Right, that's what you'll have to do. Nico -- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
