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COW Links

Posted May 13, 2004 4:35 UTC (Thu) by elanthis (subscriber, #6227)
In reply to: COW Links by nix
Parent article: COW Links

apps that rely on stable inode numbers are broken. many filesystems cannot give this guarantee
across file accesses (they stay the same between open() and close(), but not otherwise). gnu
arch, for example, uses inode numbers for "validity" checking, and as a consequence breaks very
often on common file systems, such as NFS.

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