begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 03:45:04AM -0800: [snip] > The larger problem is that we shouldn't be using a "filename". > > A filename is just a unique database key. Nobody uses the unique > database key in *anything* even remotely user friendly.
A unix filename is a programmer- and user-friendly alias for the real database key: the inode number. Other operating systems no doubt do things in other ways. I'm awfully happy we aren't doing thing with JCL and absolute disk blocks; for as much whining as I do, I realize that things could be far, far worse. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
