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- From: miff@asharak.apana.org.au (michael smith)
- Subject: Re: TOSFS
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 12:48:44+1030
- In-Reply-To: <9402221320.AA11598@math.uni-muenster.de> from "Julian Reschke " at Tue, 22 Feb 94 14:20:32 MET DST
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- In <9402221320.AA11598@math.uni-muenster.de> you wrote :
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- >> My feeling is that the best inode computation would be to use the
- >> starting sector number of the file as the inode. But I don't know of
- >> a way to compute the starting sector number without reading the FAT
- >> directly.
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- >Nor do I. I don't think that we will get a real inode without doing a
- >real xfs...
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- You don't have to read the FAT, only the directory entry, but yes, I agree,
- that's a pretty messy way to have to do it.
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- >Julian F. Reschke, Hensenstr. 142, D-48161 Muenster
- > eMail: reschke@math.uni-muenster.de jr@ms.maus.de
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- I think julian's idea of crc'ing the pathname is a pretty good compromise.
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