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Old 05-22-2005
Solaris 10 SPARCS same ino number for file system

Thank you all for replying. I understand the link to directories has the same inode number, and yes,if it is a different file system, it may have the same inode number also. But here is what I found out from Solaris 10 (SPARCS) file system . Below you would find that /usr, /usr/bin, /var/sadm all of them have the same inode nubmer 4, and they are under the same file system and no links between them...Could someone help to explain why the inode number is not unique? Thanks a lot.

Code:
rose-{5} ls -i /
     22728 TT_DB/              316 kernel/             115 sbin/
         9 bin@                112 lib/                120 tmp/
     11104 cdrom/                3 lost+found/           4 usr/
      2455 core                113 mnt/              22049 usr2/
        10 dev/              11097 net/                  5 var/
      1118 devices/              8 opt/              22035 vol/
        11 etc/                519 platform/         22058 www/
         6 export/             114 proc/
     11098 home/             22036 root/
rose-{6} ls -i /usr/
     28497 4lib/             24146 j2se/               116 preserve@
      5047 5bin@              3876 java@              7511 proc/
     17802 SUNWale/           8613 jdk/                117 pub@
      3668 X@                   25 kernel/             118 sadm/
     20168 adm@                 40 kvm/                125 sbin/
     79500 apache/              41 lib/               3203 sfw/
    102302 appserver/       197202 local/              161 share/
    129684 aset/                 3 lost+found/       11395 snadm/
         4 bin/                106 mail@               201 spool@
        21 ccs/               5464 man@                202 src@
        23 demo/               107 net/                203 tmp@
      3763 dict@               112 news@             28362 ucb/
      7541 dt/              141483 oasys/           157748 ucbinclude/
        24 games/              113 old/              28411 ucblib/
     84764 gnome/              114 openwin/         141489 vmsys/
      5640 include/           6032 perl5/              204 xpg4/
     73687 iplanet/            115 platform/         73440 xpg6/
rose-{7} ls -i /var/
       119 adm/               1018 krb5/               135 preserve/
     13281 apache/             126 ld/                 136 run/
     14974 appserver/         1443 ldap/                 4 sadm/
       123 audit/              130 log/                137 saf/
      4570 crash/                3 lost+found/       11664 samba/
       124 cron/              7644 lp/                4529 sma_snmp/
      7430 dmi/                131 mail/              7434 snmp/
     28095 ds5/                133 news/               139 spool/
      5682 dt/                1315 nfs/               4578 statmon/
       329 fm/                1444 nis/                144 tmp/
     11323 gnome/             7790 ntp/              15615 uucp/
     13716 imq/                134 opt/               1445 yp/
       125 inet/             17832 patchsvr/
rose-{8}


Last edited by zazzybob; 05-22-2005 at 11:06 AM.. Reason: Added code tags for readability
 

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matchpathcon_checkmatches(3)				     SELinux API documentation				      matchpathcon_checkmatches(3)

NAME
matchpathcon_checkmatches, matchpathcon_filespec_add, matchpathcon_filespec_destroy, matchpathcon_filespec_eval - check and report whether any specification index has no matches with any inode. Maintenance and statistics on inode associations. SYNOPSIS
#include <selinux/selinux.h> void matchpathcon_checkmatches(char *str); int matchpathcon_filespec_add(ino_t ino, int specind, const char *file); void matchpathcon_filespec_destroy(void); void matchpathcon_filespec_eval(void); DESCRIPTION
matchpathcon_checkmatches checks whether any specification has no matches and reports them. The str argument is used as a prefix for any warning messages. matchpathcon_filespec_add maintains an association between an inode ino and a specification index specind, and checks whether a conflicting specification is already associated with the same inode (e.g. due to multiple hard links). If so, then it uses the latter of the two speci- fications based on their order in the file context configuration. Returns the specification index used or -1 on error. matchpathcon_filespec_destroy destroys any inode associations that have been added, e.g. to restart for a new filesystem. matchpathcon_filespec_eval displays statistics on the hash table usage for the inode associations. RETURN VALUE
Returns zero on success or -1 otherwise. SEE ALSO
selinux(8), matchpathcon(3), matchpathcon_index(3), freecon(3), setfilecon(3), setfscreatecon(3) sds@tycho.nsa.gov 21 November 2009 matchpathcon_checkmatches(3)
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