Tom Jackson wrote:
Think about the case where multiple logical files are actually the same
physical file. Using the name would result in caching the same object
under different names. This is a much more likely situation than this so
called bug.

Huh, hard links - I sometimes forget about those. It's a much more believable reason (than my previous suggestion of shortening the key) for why the inode was used instead of the filename for the hash key.

-J


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