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From: | Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: | Re: Bug Emacs 21.3: write-file downcasing |
Date: | Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:29:26 -0700 |
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
Kevin Rodgers <address@hidden> writes: |> Even though these files have different contents, sizes, and timestamps, they |> share the same inode number. Do they also share the same device number? Otherwise that looks pretty much broken, many other utilities probably fail to work properly with such files.
Yes they do share the same device number, and I have seen at least one utility fail -- I think it was diff on OSF1/Digital Unix, which assumed that files with the same inode were identical. I'll try to get some info from Network Appliance. In the meantime, you might be interested in this: http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3002.html#I4 -- <a href="mailto:<kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>">Kevin Rodgers</a>
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