Re: ISO-9660 Rock Ridge gives different links different inums

[Andrew McGregor]

--On Friday, January 10, 2003 14:08:59 +1100 Peter Chubb 
<[e-mail]> wrote:

>
> In linux 2.5.54, multiple links to the same file on a rock-ridge CD
> have different inode numbers.  This confuses cpio, tar and cp -ra
> because the multiple links are each copied separately as a single file.
>
> It'll probably also confuse NFS, but I haven't tried that.

Shouldn't do, but it will probably make the buffer cache on the server less 
effective.

> Currently the inode number appears to be the offset in bytes from the
> start of the file system to the iso directory entry.  Files with multiple
> directory entries (i.e., links) therefore have different inums.
>
> I don't know enough about the ISO9660 standard to be sure what's best
> to do about this.

Change it to be the offset to the data area, which should be the same for 
all of them?

>
> --
> Dr Peter Chubb				    [e-mail]
> You are lost in a maze of BitKeeper repositories, all almost the same.