Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 5 authors, 2002-12-18

Re: [Fwd: [Bug 136] New: FSID returned from statvfs always 0]

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: 2002-12-09 22:15:28

Followup to:  [ref]
By author:    Andries Brouwer [off-list ref]
In newsgroup: linux.dev.fs.devel
The general idea is that f_fsid contains some random stuff such that
the pair (f_fsid,ino) uniquely determines a file.
This, of course, is the exact POSIX definition of the st_dev part of
struct stat: (st_dev, st_ino) uniquely identifies the file.

	-hpa
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