inodes are no longer constant across VFAT mounts at kernel 2.2.14

[Norman Back]

Hi Alan

I'm not sure what you mean by 'legal', however it does break software that
depends on constant inodes such as tar -g. This means I can't use linux to
do incremental backups of vfat filestore (or any other fat filestore) using
tar -g. I see this as a step backwards for fat filestore compatibility. Is
there someway I can undo the change?

Norman

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan en lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]
> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 14:57
> To: Norman Back
> Cc: linux-kernel en vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject: Re: inodes are no longer constant across VFAT mounts
> at kernel
> 2.2.14
>
>
> > [1.] One line summary of the problem:
> > inodes are no longer constant across VFAT mounts at kernel 2.2.14
>
> Yep. Its quite legal behaviour. Keeping constant inodes is
> near impossible
> and the attempt to do so in older 2.2.x is the cause of a
> pile of fat handling
> bugs that are now dead and buried
>
> Alan
>
>



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