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You can’t seriously write an article extolling the virtues of inodes as a way of locating files, without pointing out a very clear weakness: the inode of a file
by joosters 9y ago
You can’t seriously write an article extolling the virtues of inodes as a way of locating files, without pointing out a very clear weakness: the inode of a file can easily change when an application saves a new version of it!
Most apps don’t consider the inode as a user-visible (or user-significant) part of file metadata and so will make no effort to preserve it...
- ridiculous_fish 9y agoThere's also the reverse issue: a deleted file may have its inode recycled. Linux in particular aggressively recycles inodes.
- klodolph 9y agoThe article doesn't explain it very well, but a bookmark is not just an inode.