Re: Bug Emacs 21.3: write-file downcasing

[Kevin Rodgers]

Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Kevin Rodgers <address@hidden> writes:
>
> |> Even though these files have different contents, sizes, and timestamps, they
> |> share the same inode number.
>
> Do they also share the same device number?  Otherwise that looks pretty
> much broken, many other utilities probably fail to work properly with such
> files.


Yes they do share the same device number, and I have seen at least one
utility fail -- I think it was diff on OSF1/Digital Unix, which assumed
that files with the same inode were identical.

I'll try to get some info from Network Appliance.  In the meantime, you
might be interested in this:

http://www.netapp.com/tech_library/3002.html#I4

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