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- From: tkr@praxis.co.uk (Tim Rylance)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: CAP6.1 and Publish and Subscribe
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.102406.26203@praxis.co.uk>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 10:24:06 GMT
- References: <SANDY.92Aug28130057@beeker.cs.umass.edu> <BtpwEx.GE8@mtholyoke.edu>
- Organization: Praxis, Bath, U.K.
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- jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
- > ... since inodes are only re-used
- >after a file is removed anyway, so the only time that the Mac should get
- >a dirID that no longer points to the right directory is when the right
- >directory no longer exists.
-
- Or when your friendly system administrator has moved your directories to
- a filesystem that is less nearly full. Using i-numbers for dirIDs would
- cause this friendly system administrator enormous pain.
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