From: "Cody F." <frazercr@...>
Date: 2011-08-20T00:22:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Get file by inode number?

> Also, these file systems store only forward mappings, i.e. from file
> name to inode number but not the reverse. So retrieving a file name
> from an inode number basically means scanning the complete file system
> and checking each file's inode number.  Definitively something that
> does not fall into the category "efficient". :-)

Actually, when Linux crashes, it might store orphaned files in the
lost+found directory with the filename listed as the original inode of
the file. That's why it'd be helpful to have that in Ruby.

Cody

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