LogicalFile provider usability

Tomáš Smetana tsmetana at redhat.com
Fri Sep 6 08:12:45 UTC 2013


On Thu, 05 Sep 2013 15:25:05 +0200
Jan Synacek <jsynacek at redhat.com> wrote:

> 1) What is the purpose of FSCreationClassName, FSName and
> LFCreationClassName in the LMI_UnixFile class? If my understanding is
> correct, in the linux environment, it should be safe to ignore those,
> because it is impossible for any two files on the filesystem to have
> different paths and actually be the same file (following symlinks doesn't
> count here). In other words, file's path should be enough to unambiguously
> identify that file. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.

What about hard links? Do they count? I think it's the {device ID, inode
number} pair that uniquely identifies a "physical file". Not the path though.

Regards,
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Tomáš Smetana
Platform Engineering, Red Hat


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