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RE: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.2 on cygwin


From: Robert Collins
Subject: RE: [Gnu-arch-users] tla1.2 on cygwin
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 01:38:39 +1100

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 11:29, Charles Duffy wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 02:11, address@hidden wrote:
> > The only problem for using it on FAT is that tla depends on "inode"
> > values, and FAT does not have them, NTFS does have a similar thing.
> 
> A silly suggestion, but off the top of my head:
> 
> Could something similar enough to inodes for tla's usage be generated on
> FAT by hashing the full pathname to a file?

windows supports EA's, one can stash inodes in there, or use a hash. As
FAT doesn't support hardlinks, a hash should be enough..
Rob
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