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> > > No, if the file was removed, it still tells you where to start your
> > > search. A missing filename is just as good a marker as a present one.
> > And if new file is created with same name?
> The same thing that happens as if a new file was inserted BEFORE your
> cursor, in the part of the directory you've already looked at. You
> ignore it.
Who says that if I've got files A, B, C, D, and delete B, and create a new
B, whatever underlying directory structure there is will place it where the
old B was? It might reuse holes before A...
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