Re: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/makefs

[Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 07:55:16PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 09:27:49AM +0000, David Young wrote:
> > 
> > Add hard-link support:  keep a hashtable that maps inodes for
> > regular files on the source filesystem to the offset of the first
> > data block on the target filesystem.
> 
> Since not all filesystems manage to have unique inode numbers, you need
> to compare more than the st_dev and st_ino fields - even when st_nlink > 1.

Which filesystems do not have unique inode numbers?

Jaromir
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