As far as I understood, no, they are unique only to their device, so you could have multiple files With the same inode in different filesystems.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Friday, March 16, 2012 4:44 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] Turn a device and inode into file name Are inodes unique across all devices? I was under the impression that they were not, and therefore you need both for a unique correspondence -----Original Message----- From: Don Robinson <[email protected]> To: U2 Users List <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 12:58 pm Subject: Re: [U2] Turn a device and inode into file name Try "ls -li |grep inode#" in the directory where the file is likley to be or ls -liR / |grep inode#" to look everythere. ou may need root permissions to check some files. O warranty! on Robinson From: Wjhonson <[email protected]> o: [email protected] ent: Friday, March 16, 2012 3:23 PM ubject: [U2] Turn a device and inode into file name nyone have an easy way to do this? n the past I've run a batch routine to just query each and every Universe file or it's inode and device and build a table of these Every week.... eems like a great amount of overkill to me. ou could also mod the CREATE-FILE command to sniff it and make an xref entry ut .... Any suggestions? his is NOT for the case where you know the file and want to find the inode and evice t's for the case where you know the inode and device (only) and want to find he file. ______________________________________________ 2-Users mailing list [email protected] ttp://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ______________________________________________ 2-Users mailing list [email protected] ttp://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
