FreeLists / openbeosstorage / [openbeosstorage] Re: DiskDevice API v2.1

["shatty" <shatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I was only thinking about moving, and the
solution only really matters for absolute addressed
methods.  Applicability: not very common.  Anyway,
I'll just go back to lurking now. :-)

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: "Axel D=C3=B6rfler"  <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: openbeosstorage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 17:43:15 +0200 CEST
Subject: [openbeosstorage] Re: DiskDevice API v2.1

How is that supposed to work?
The entry_refs thing only happens when resizing or defragmenting a file 
system. Because there, the on disk location of files can be changed, 
and thus an entry_ref might be rendered invalid through that action.
When a partition is moved around, the file system doesn't even have to 
be aware if it doesn't use absolute block addressing - and that's only 
used by iso9660 and UDF - both are very unlikely to be found on a hard 
drive.

Adios...
   Axel.