[CLUE-Tech] Re: Finding all hard links to a file

Angelo Bertolli angelo at freeshell.org
Mon May 17 21:29:06 MDT 2004


>
> File names are kept in directories (which, at least originally, were 
> files).  The directory tells you the file name and the file's inode. 
> They are the only way the two are connected and they are optimized for 
> looking up inodes given a name (not the other way round).
>
I see... another reason to add this feature to the slocate db.  But 
would it be useful?






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