From: Timo Hoepfner <th-dev@...>
Date: 2006-07-05T01:13:32+09:00
Subject: Get file by inode number?

Hi,

is there a way to retrieve a file's path by inode number? Basically  
the opposite of:

File.stat("/tmp/test").ino
=> 2178494

Background: I want to track files in a database, and want to keep  
track of them even when they're moved or renamed.

Apple is doing something similar on MacOS with Aliases. Internally, a  
path and a fileID (=inode) is stored. When an alias is to be  
resolved, it first tries to find it by path and falls back to  
locating it by fileID.

Timo