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| From: | Miklos Szeredi |
| Subject: | [bug #17877] Invalid "No such file or directory" error on filesystem without stable inode numbers |
| Date: | Wed, 04 Oct 2006 18:58:27 +0000 |
| User-agent: | Opera/9.01 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) |
Follow-up Comment #10, bug #17877 (project findutils):
> if some Linux-based file systems can't provide stable inode
> numbers, they should be fixed so that they do. It shouldn't
> be that hard.
It's not hard, it's impossible. Take for example path based
network filesystems (smbfs, sshfs). For these the only identifier for files
is the path.
How do you map the path to a unique stable integer identifier?
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