Re: restoring hard linked files from zisofs/iso9660 w. RR

Peter Wächtler (pwaechtler@loewe-komp.de)
Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:28:31 +0100


Frank van Maarseveen schrieb:
>
> This doesn't seem to work due to inode number differences. Is
> this a fundamental problem or can it be solved somehow, e.g.
> by an attribute which refers to a sort of "original" inode
> number?
>
> or by a more advanced inode number synthesis in fs/isofs?
>

Don't know about isofs, but hardlinks do not use an inode.
It's just another entry in a directory pointing to a "used"
inode (there is another entry refering to the same inode)

fast symlinks do occupy an inode, symlinks an inode + 1 diskblock.
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