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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can you control the inode a file is assigned?
Message-ID: <3781@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 28 Jul 90 18:40:19 GMT
References: <LARRY.90Jul27140936@focsys.uucp>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Is there anyway to control the inode number a file is assigned,
>assuming the inode is free?

No, not unless your vendor has added some special call to request that a
file be assigned a particular inode; standard UNIXes don't have any such
call.  The policy used to assign a given i-number to a file is file
system-dependent....