Subject: Re: Aliases: Are alternate filesystems worth trying?
From: Stephen VanPelt (vanpelts@musc.edu)
Date: Fri May 18 2001 - 14:14:19 EDT
Richard,
I've got a Redhat 7.1 box up running SGI's newly released (at least, newly
released outside of their own systems) XFS file system. In my trials, I'll
check it out to see if this is a problem on my platform, and I'll let you
know.
Stephen VanPelt
Information Technology Consultant
MUSC Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs
PH: 843-792-5558 Internet: vanpelts@musc.edu
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--On Friday, May 18, 2001 1:32 PM -0400 Richard Goldman
<rgml@graphpoint.com> wrote:
> Dear People,
>
> A question, please, and your knowledge, and even guesses would
> be much appreciated:
>
> I know from previous discussion that Macintosh aliases become
> "unhinged" from the files or directories they are supposed to point
> to because the alias contains some kind of ID (did? inode?) that
> gets recycled by Linux. Because of this (and the fact that the
> absolute path of the file isn't stored in the alias), the Mac alias can
> end up pointing somewhere else entirely. At least such is my
> understanding.
>
> So here's the question:
>
> 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?
>
> 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
> ???
>
> Thank you in advance for your time and thoughts.
>
> Sincerely,
> Richard
>
Stephen VanPelt
Information Technology Consultant
MUSC Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs
PH: 843-792-5558 Internet: vanpelts@musc.edu
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