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So then have another layer that shows insensitive things that point to files on the file system but leave the actual file system to simply map each unique ident

by ses1984 6y ago

So then have another layer that shows insensitive things that point to files on the file system but leave the actual file system to simply map each unique identifier to a file.

pwinnski 6y ago
That's what we have: inodes are unique identifiers, and names are for humans.
- zajio1am 6y ago
  Well, that is not true. POSIX API is fundamentally filename (and filehandle) based, access rights are path (and therefore filename) based, while inodes have flat (per filesystem) namespace. Inodes are mostly internal implementation detail that unfortunately leaked into some abstractions.
  - pwinnski 6y ago
    As a matter of API, yes. Conceptually, though, inodes are unique per filesystem, and names are not. Given symbolic links, even assumptions about path+filename are not always correct.