How to best do zillions of little files?

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Kent Borg wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:18:26PM -0400, Andy Davidoff wrote:
> > I once used the inodes of files as a unique key from which...
> 
> This won't be news to Andy, but still one thing to remind anyone who
> is considering doing such a thing is that moving the data as files
> from one disk to another will not preserve inode numbers.  The file
> system issues the inode numbers and another file system will end up
> issuing different inode numbers.

Backup/restore might also be a problem, depending on how it was done.


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