Re: Aliases: Are alternate filesystems worth trying?

Subject: Re: Aliases: Are alternate filesystems worth trying?
From: Thomas Schierle (ts@visual-s.de)
Date: Fri May 18 2001 - 15:59:25 EDT

On 01-05-18 19:32 +0200, "Richard Goldman"<rgml@graphpoint.com> wrote:

> [ ... ]
> to because the alias contains some kind of ID (did? inode?) that
> gets recycled by Linux.
> [ ... ]

DIDs (directory IDs) to the best of my knowledge are unique to
HFS/HFS+ volumes. Every file on a HFS volume gets a *true* unique
identifier ID assigned -- the ID number will never ever get recycled
for a given volume.

> Is it Linux itself, at some "virtual" filesystem level, that is re-cycling
> these ID's, or is it due to the nature and operations of the ext2
> filesystem?

netatalk assigns non-permanent DIDs just in RAM for a users session,
if that user logs out, DIDs get flushed from memory

> Put another way, is the alias problem (re: 1.5pre6 and previous)
> endemic to Linux, or do you think I'll have better luck if I try another
> filesystem (managable under Linux) such as ReiserFS or ext3 or

1.5pre6 compiled with permanent DIDs works as advertised for me :-)
just give it a try! 

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Thomas Schierle, Munich, Germany

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