[Gnu-arch-users] Re: inode caching for explicit id's completed

[Robert Collins]

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 14:05, Miles Bader wrote:
> Aaron Bentley <address@hidden> writes:
> > When making a changeset, can you zap the path data from the sig before 
> > using it for comparisons?  You should be able to look up files by 
> > dev+inode anyway.
> 
> But note that you can't rely on the device-number across remounts, so
> it's basically not useful in inode signatures.
> 
> [See my earlier post on this subject for a few more details; no one
> objected then, so I'll submit a patch to stop using device numbers, though
> I'll probably wait until Robert is finished twiddling with things.]

No need to wait.. my stuff is aimed at 1.3.

Rob

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