Re: curious: if not file references, what?

2017-01-20 Thread Charles Srstka
> On Jan 20, 2017, at 10:24 PM, Quincey Morris > wrote: > > It’s an interesting question whether file-references use inode numbers. Some > file systems don’t have them, so (I assume) they’re invented when such a file > system is mounted, but they’re not

Re: curious: if not file references, what?

2017-01-20 Thread Quincey Morris
On Jan 20, 2017, at 19:10 , David Young wrote: > > This discussion seems to connect with a question I have had: what's the > "proper" way to refer from a first document to a second document, if > the second document may not have a fixed location in the filesystem? > It sounds

curious: if not file references, what?

2017-01-20 Thread David Young
This discussion seems to connect with a question I have had: what's the "proper" way to refer from a first document to a second document, if the second document may not have a fixed location in the filesystem? It sounds like "file references" (perhaps these are roughly in correspondence with an