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

[David Anselmi]

Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>>
>> 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?

It wouldn't be useful to me, I've never asked myself "which file names 
point to the same file".  Why do you ask that question?

Dave