Re: Portable way to compare struct stat's?

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Wes Peters wrote:
> 
> It's not broken in this case.  2^16 (st_dev) is certainly enough to uniquely
> indentify all mounted filesystems, and 2^32 is (by definition) enough to
> uniquely indentify each of the files on a filesystem.  Discussions (with
> strong, valid reasons) about expanding the size of ino_t should be carried
> out on -arch.

Just to expand a little bit more, some distributed filesystems *do
not* have a unique identifier like the inode.

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