[Gnu-arch-users] Re: inode caching for explicit id's completed

[Miles Bader]

Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:
> When making a changeset, can you zap the path data from the sig before 
> using it for comparisons?  You should be able to look up files by 
> dev+inode anyway.

But note that you can't rely on the device-number across remounts, so
it's basically not useful in inode signatures.

[See my earlier post on this subject for a few more details; no one
objected then, so I'll submit a patch to stop using device numbers, though
I'll probably wait until Robert is finished twiddling with things.]

-Miles
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