On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:33:22PM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
>George Georgalis wrote:
>> shouldn't we be able to use stat to look up
>> the file attributes, like name and path, from the inode?
>
>An inode, like a network node, is a number.  Just as /etc/hosts and DNS
>map names to network addresses, just as /etc/services maps names to ports,
>so too does a filesystem directory map names to inodes.  The number
>doesn't know its name, and, as you know, can have many names.  
>
>That's not to say it can't be done, of course; that's just to say it's a
>singly-linked list.  To look up names by number, you'd need a
>number-to-name linked list.  I don't know of any OS that maintains such a
>list. 

right... all I have to do is keep my inodes ptr in a
zone file!

 geo@fuji:/Users/geo/ dnsq ptr 12345.hostname.inode a.ns.galis.org | grep answer
answer: 12345.hostname.inode 333 PTR \057tmp\057file.txt

but I think it will be easier to just note the iso
whenever I mount a vnode. :)

is there any way to mount an iso file with the auto
mechanism in fstab?

>Apple has something similar: if you create an "alias" in the OS X Finder
>and then rename the target with mv(1), the alias continues to work.  (The
>alias is not a symlink.  file(1) says only that it's empty.)  Cf.
>http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_fs.html and look for "Aliases". 

Interesting link, have sorta wondered how OS X would
find broken aliases.... thanks.

// George

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George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator <IXOYE><