04-11-2011
Inode: is it both unique and 'permanent'?
I try to understand the meaning of an inode. I wonder whether
- an inode is unique (I'm pretty sure it is) and
- whether it remains the same inode regardless of whatever happens to the file, dir or whatever?
I read somewhere that an inode stores info about the file, size... so changing the size might change the inode?
Btw, is there a difference in both features in different platforms? I'm on a mac, but would a linux system be much different?
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vfs_vget
VFS_VGET(9) BSD Kernel Developer's Manual VFS_VGET(9)
NAME
VFS_VGET -- convert an inode number to a vnode
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>
#include <sys/vnode.h>
int
VFS_VGET(struct mount *mp, ino_t ino, int flags, struct vnode **vpp);
DESCRIPTION
The VFS_VGET() looks up or creates a vnode from a (mount, inode#) tupple.
Its arguments are:
mp The mount point.
ino The inode representing the file. This is a unique number assigned by the file system when vnodes are first created.
flags Additional locking flags to pass through to vget(9).
vpp Return parameter for the vnode.
This is an optional file system entry-point for file systems mainly intended for NFS server use, but many file systems use it internally in
VOP_LOOKUP(9) and similar.
If the file system does not support this call, then it should return EOPNOTSUPP.
Please see ffs_vget() in sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c for the canonical example.
SEE ALSO
VFS(9), vget(9), vnode(9)
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Doug Rabson.
BSD
January 7, 2005 BSD