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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: corrupt library (failed inode signature validat


From: Andrew Suffield
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: corrupt library (failed inode signature validation)
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 20:51:18 +0000
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On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 03:42:37PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >      numbers are not reliable.  I guess this is not really a user error,
> >      more of a bug in tla (this is the reason I want to get rid of device
> >      numbers in inode signatures).
> 
> Indeed.  Even inode numbers are not stable on some filesystem types.

Those types would be broken, or else not unix filesystems at all. tla
won't work on platforms that are sufficiently non-unix in nature.

(NFS provides stable inode numbers, but not necessarily consistent
ones - they may be different on another host)

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