NTFS inode numbers (was Re: cygipc (and PostgreSQL) XP problem resolved!)

[Robert Collins]

On Sun, 2003-05-11 at 22:20, Corinna Vinschen wrote:


> FileIndexLow is also interesting.  I got 103812 different values but none
> of these values was bigger than 0x0003ffff.  So it *looks* as if the upper
> 14 bits aren't used in FileIndexLow. 
> 
> This would result in FileIndex being a 34 bit value.
> 
> Naaah, that sounds too weird.

my WAG: throw 2.9 Million files at a single NTFS volume and see what
appears. You're likely getting the tree path or some such, and will need
to force the tree depth up - which will take exponentially increasing
file counts...

Rob
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