Re: glibc is the culprit - Re: vfs.txt and i_ino

[Jeff Garzik]

Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> 
> At 15:40 12/02/02, Guest section DW wrote:
> >On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:04:13PM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> > > > It is probably best to avoid giving real files ino 0.
> > >
> > > Problem is: It is NOT a real file. It's the '$MFT'. It is normally
> > > hidden from userspace, but with a special option it becomes (partly,
> > > as we've seen) visible.
> >
> >But I do not know anything about '$MFT'.
> 
> It is basically a normal file with inode number 0 (this is defined in the
> ntfs specifications) which contains all metadata concerning all inodes
> (including the metadata describing the $MFT itself[1]).

Or in Unix-speak,

        $MFT == inode table

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