Subject: Re: [vserver] Requirements for file to be hashified
From: Jim Wight <j.k.wight@ncl.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:54:30 +0000

On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 16:08 +0100, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson wrote:
> Jim Wight wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 18:39 +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote:
> >> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:49:22PM +0000, Jim Wight wrote:
> >> > What are the requirements for files to be hashified? I thought it was
> >> > simply identical content. If so, what might be the reason for the
> >> > following behaviour?
> 
> Content, and basic properties. Hashifying a file owned by root and one
> owned by a user would be rather bad...
> 
> The struct stat fields used are mode, uid, gid, rdev, size and mtime.

Thanks. I hadn't picked up that information from anything I'd read about
unification.

All OK now.

Jim