Re: Translations of folder names - two proposals

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 17:04 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Gwe, 2004-12-10 at 17:57, Dan Winship wrote:
> > We could also borrow an idea from Mac OS aliases and remember the inode
> > number of each of the folders, so that if the user does manage to move
> > or rename one of them behind GNOME's back, we still have a chance of
> > being able to find it and fix the symlink.
> 
> Inodes are not static on all file systems when a file is not open. It is
> however true enough to be useful especially if combined with a file
> attribute marker

Unfortunately there is no "open by inode" or "find by inode" operation,
so its hard to make use of this information without huge searches.