Inode number changing

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Fri Mar 9 13:39:11 EST 2012


Hi...

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 20:31, Ganesh Patil <patil.ganesh170 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sir, every time when I modify file content then file's inode get change.
> Why this is happening?

well, generally because  inode is file's metadata. You change file's
content, very likely inode content must be changed too to reflect the
new content...for example its atime, ctime and mtime.

> [root at localhost Ganesh]# dmesg -c
> [  519.922272] h44: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
> [  519.922275] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
> [  519.922496] inode no of file=12

what is that? inode number? and what file does it access? and does it
access different files everytime this "h44" kernel module loaded?

> [  519.922502] size of file =0
> [  519.922503] size of file copied =0
> [  519.922504] data blocks=
> [  519.922505] 62218
> [  586.939834] Goodbye world 1.

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