Linus Torvalds has had “some solid interactions” with Google contributors on the Linux kernel mailing list. According to the Register, the subject matter is inodes, and “according to Red Hat, each inode is a 'unique identifier for a particular piece of metadata on a particular file system.'”
Inodes have been a topic of discussion on the Linux kernel mailing list in recent weeks, with Googlers Steven Rostedt and Torvalds having a lively discussion on the issue. In a thread titled “Make all inodes of files and directories the same,” the poster pointed out that inodes may still have a role when used. tar Archive the file. Torvalds countered that the era of inodes is over. “Sure, inode numbers were once special and had a history behind them. But we basically have to work hard to break free of that broken history.” he writes. “The inode number is no longer a unique descriptor. We're not living in his 1970s, and file systems have changed, too.” But the debate over inodes continued. Eventually, Rostedt proposed that every inode should have a unique number.
In response, Mr. Torvalds said: “Stop making things more complicated than they have to be.” Then he yelled a little. “And damn it, stop copying VFS layer functions. It was a bad idea last time, and it's a really bad idea this time. I'm not going to accept this crap.” Torvalds on Rostedt's approach The main criticism was that Google's developers did not understand the subject matter well enough, which Rostedt later acknowledged.
“The inode number is no longer a unique descriptor,” Torvalds writes at one point.
“We're not living in the 1970s. File systems have changed.”
